Nymphsaga/Invitation to the World of Nymphs

Invitation to the World of Nymphs

"Is it too childish?" That has been a common concern amongst the fans of modern virtual reality gaming fans ever since the brand-new MMORPG-game Nymphsaga got announced to the world. The new adventure game made and designed by a global gaming giant "Mormia Studios" has became famous even before its release, and the debate that is happening online is hotter than ever at the eve of release. It's not all just criticism, as the game has gained massive support by some communities as well, because of its bold stance on playable characters, who all seem to be little children. Because of this, it is quite clear to everyone, believers and skeptics alike, that this game will not be for everyone.

It is partially based on its much more popular "Big Brother" in "Mormia Online", which has been the top virtual reality roleplaying experience for over ten years now. Nymphsaga will supposedly be much simpler and smaller in scale and unlike the absurdly massive sandbox that is Mormia, as it's a linear adventure, with a simple end goal in mind. The story is about a struggle for survival, told from the standpoint of Nymphs, a race of child-like creatures resembling fairies, against the invading demons who have mysteriously appeared on the already dangerous world of Phantasm. And that's pretty much the entire plot. The game is rumored to juggle around - and be a testing ground for - new kinds of game mechanics, which for example include an ability to shape the entire world around the playable characters in such a way that it will affect the entire game around them. For example, when a player completes a significant task - or fails to do so - the entire player base will be affected accordingly. Killing a raid boss will result in the raid boss staying dead for a very, very long time, if not even indefinitely, but that's just one example. The way classes and abilities work will also be completely different. There are only a fraction of useable abilities available compared to a typical RPG, and instead players are expected to use the few abilities they have in accordance to actual movement, which requires much more practice and raw skill. In a sense, the game is supposed to be played more like an FPS than a traditional RPG.

After a years' worth of closed development, the game is about to reach its next logical stage. The game is about to be opened for alpha testing, in which the first stages along with all of its game mechanics and character creation available for a select few. A young lad from rural southern Ireland, after ten years of playing nothing but Mormia, is about to take his first step into this new and exciting world as one of the lucky ones. He is one of the three lucky bastards in his guild who are able to get in with the fun and his excitement is palpable. He has already created his character and is pretty much ready to go as soon as the servers go online, and so are the pals he's going to play with. He's scheduled to meet his two close friends - One from Stockholm, Sweden and one from Kyoto, Japan - as soon as the game launches. They even know where they're supposed to meet, since the map of the starting zone has been available for public for a long time. In all of their respective locations, the three likeminded men put on their new, upgraded VR headsets, turn on the power, and then, as the servers finally go online, dive into the world of Nymphsaga.

A strange sensation fills the body of our young hero, a sensation one would perhaps compare to a sudden awakening from a long, long slumber. And not just sudden. He finds himself wide awake as if snapping out of a nightmare, in a standing position, with sounds and a pleasant smell of nature invading his senses. A calm wind strokes his hair and he takes a deep breath. He's taking it all in. It feels nothing like the game he was used to playing in the past. Of course, Mormia looks realistic, and it even manages to mimic some senses a real person would feel in the real world, but what he feels in Nymphsaga is on a completely different level. So much so, that it doesn't just feel like ten years of development. No, this feels more like a leap of ten decades forward to him. 'There's just no way a videogame can feel this realistic', or so he thinks. 'It's like I'm still in the real world.'

It's not just the physical sensations he feels, but there's also the psychological aspect. Despite liking the feeling of freshness, the absolute joy of experiencing something brand new and exciting first hand, he's not the type to create many characters in the games he plays. He likes to stick to just one for each game. That's why everything feels even more so exciting to him. A level one character in a completely fresh and unknown world, with almost all of its secrets still left to be discovered. Only one thing remains the same, and that is his played role. He really, REALLY likes massive swords and watching heads roll. That is something that is never ever going to change. That's why, he picked his class to be a Soldier.

He's a man in real life, and he has always played a male character, so his avatar in Nymphsaga is a first time ever for him. He decided to make his character a girl for his alpha test, mostly because there's something about being a little girl that he finds funny and adorable. Besides, it's not like he's going to be able to play his test character after the tests end anyway. So, what does she look like? Obviously, she's a child, as is every other played character in the game. She's a pale girl, with a trademark petite body. Standing in at a very much average height of 130 centimeters, (About 4'2" feet for my American friends), the body comes with a flat chest and surprisingly plumpy and juicy - yet childish - buttocks. She's packing a lot of meat in her hips - at least for a child - which is by no means a negative thing, as the man inside this avatar is a devout ass man. She also has pointy, yet short ears of an elf, which is somewhat typical for a Nymph. As for her personal and unique features, she's a fiery redhead, with braided hair that reaches to the bottom of her ribcage. She has two braids, in fact. To spice things up a little bit, he mixed some of his real-life features to his character as well. She wears glasses, as he wears in real life, and he added some freckles on her cheeks as well. In fact, his character kind of looks like what he would've expected himself to look like during his childhood, should he have been born a female. As for her large and tired-looking shy eyes, they are rather unique. They're very dark, almost black, and her irises are shaped like cogwheels. Her clothing is rather modest and nerdy, yet very girly. She has a white hoodie with nothing printed on it, but the actual hood has some uninvited ornaments the player never asked for. They're cat ears, cute and fluffy. She puts the hood on in surprise and plays around with them thinking, 'What the fuck? I don't remember picking up a hoodie like this. At least the material feels soft and warm, overall very nice.' She's also wearing a cute black miniskirt, and black and white striped knee-socks. Her plain white casual shoes finish up her outfit.

He, or as his avatar a she, pulls down the cross-shaped zipper down, to his surprise finding nothing but uncensored bare chest of a little girl underneath. There are no undergarments, no sports bra, nothing at all. He pulls the zipper up immediately and stands still in surprise. 'I knew this game is not suitable for minors, but seriously, what the fuck!? Isn't this shit illegal in some countries this game is marketed in?' Well, it's not like he minds. He likes his anime girls young. He's not quite an anime girl per se, but it's not like his tastes don't overlap a little with reality. A thought crosses his mind, a question arisen from his curious mind: If her chest is like that, then how about the rest of her body? Is everything uncensored? Could she even be able to get completely naked? A curious thought indeed, as he has never seen an actual, naked prepubescent girl.

He finally looks around finally to observe the world around his avatar carefully. It's green. In fact, it's way greener than he ever expected it to be. He's surrounded by bushes, grass and trees, a lot of trees, some of which are really far apart from each other. Despite the distances between them, some of the trees are huge and absolutely gorgeous, and their long branches along with the millions upon millions of leaves offer a breathtaking blanket above the forest floor. He can't see the sun from where he stands, but its rays touch the entire forest from the gaps of the forest's roof. He's a man who travels a lot because of his work, and he's been to Northern California once, but these trees are nothing like the redwood he's seen live. These resemble the woodlands of central Europe more, but everything is much grander in scale. This is Grove, the starting zone of Nymphsaga, the last remaining safe bastion of Nymphs in this game, supposedly. It really is just a huge forest. Based on pictures he remembers seeing online, most of the houses outside the central district resemble treehouses and are either completely or partially built inside these trees. He can actually see some of the houses from where he currently stands, but the area he's in seems to be very sparsely populated. This brings him back to his lust for bodily discovery. With nobody else around, he finds the first hidden place he can find amongst the bushes. Slowly, he reaches the tiny hand between his avatars legs, and he finds something silky underneath, and not just that. Underneath the silky underwear, there is a soft vulva of a female. 'No way', he tells himself in awe. 'Is the game this realistic? I'm basically a real girl.' Mormia is a censored game with no genitals or no removable underwear, suitable for young teenagers to play. Nymphsaga seems to be nothing like that, as it's one hundred percent uncensored on top of being incredibly realistic. This wasn't something that was advertised. While he likes his games to be very realistic, what he is experiencing right now, is maybe a little bit too much for him. It's so new and weird to him, that he decides to stop. He's getting nervous just thinking about his avatars appearance and everything that comes with it. Besides, he suddenly realizes that he has two people he needs to meet. He wants to see more, but that's something he will save for another time and place.

And there comes his next problem. Where is he? This, of course, is an easy question to answer. All he has to do is open up the user interface, which is not a hard feat to accomplish. As he's used to, the interface can be opened with a long, horizontal swipe of the hand. It is important to remember that the player must keep all the fingers pressed together, or else risk looking like a fool swinging his or her arm aimlessly. A holographic screen - about the size of a fifty-inch television - appears in front of him, with the menu along with its various options to pick underneath. Main page of this interface is always a map. It can be zoomed in and out and works pretty much like a touch screen on a smartphone of the days gone by. He quickly figures out his location, and heads towards the place where he's scheduled to meet with his close friends.

Along the walk, he comes across even more wonderous surprises in the forest. There is food. Freaking. Everywhere. Berries, fruits and vegetables, you name it. There are no animals though, for some reason, aside from very much inedible massive insects flying around. Food is growing everywhere, and it's all ripe for the picking. Then, there is the issue of players. He walks by some of them, who are probably looking around themselves, or moving towards a place they're supposed to meet their friends themselves. He can't help but to notice once he has walked past the seventh player that there is one very important feature that all of them share. They are all girls. Are female avatars really that popular as opposed to male ones? There's no way that can be the case, right? After all, in Mormia, male avatars are actually more popular than female ones.

He crosses the bridge and heads towards a park, which sounds rather silly when you think about it. A park in a middle of a forest? What's the point of that? Anyway, the park is very well kept and organized. Where he's going to is near the center of the park, towards a large fountain, and from there exactly two hundred meters to the north by the road. Since he and his friends suspected park might be a popular destination to meet, they decided to meet on the left side of the road by the closest tree you can find to avoid getting mixed up with other players. He finds the place completely empty. He made no mistake taking the walk. He's sure of it. Therefore, he must've been the first to arrive. He leans his back against the tree and waits patiently.

…

It is important to point out the name of his avatar. She is called Rain and is the shortened version of his character in Mormia, Rainmaker. It is also at this point that for the sake of avoiding confusion I will start referring him as a she, as he is a she in-game. This rule, or one similar to it, will also loosely apply to other characters going forward as well.

Eyes closed, Rain continues to enjoy the nature, and occasional cute, soft-spoken voices of the players passing by. It has been ten minutes already. Mixed into the sounds of the forest is a set of little feet, which slowly approach our first heroine. Rain opens her eyes and sees a confused looking girl of mixed Asian heritage staring back.

"You're late", Rain says, sounding bored.

"Come on, I had a long walk", girl says, and sighs exhausted. "In any case, I see it happened to you too."

"What happened?" Rain asks and leans forward, as she decides to stand firmly without the support of the tree.

"I'm a girl!" she yells suddenly.

"Wait…" Rain mutters and continues to look at the girl with a bored look in her eyes. "Is this some kind of roleplay?"

"Are you kidding me? I made a male character! Didn't you?"

Rain's expression remains unchanged, but she falls silent, as her mouth opens ever so slightly in surprise. She can't even muster up the courage to let out one single syllable. In a moment of slight embarrassment, she does her best to keep her lips at bay, which are trying to force a smiling arc on her face. "No…" she finally says. "This is the character I made…"

"You were a girl from a beginning?" girl says and begins to laugh. "Fucking weirdo."

"Oh, fuck you too", Rain says, still borderline emotionless. This is a theme for her going forward. She is a pokerfaced joker with an unquenchable lust for banter and jest. While she can make fun of absolutely anything, even the things that some would find inappropriate, she doesn't convey a lot of emotion through her facial expressions. She's not a mean girl though, although she's often mistaken for a jerk. Her soft-spoken voice, spoken with a noticeable Irish accent, also mirrors this general lack of emotion. Speaking of how she acts, this Asian girl seems to be almost like a polar opposite of Rain. She's rather loud and expressive, but only when it comes to her speaking. The movements of her body and hands are surprisingly collected, even elegant. Only thing that seems to be slowing her down at all is her new, cute and high-pitch voice, which appears to be disturbing her somewhat. "So, you got turned into a girl then?" Rain asks.

"Yeah…" girl says meekly, pouting. She sees a forced, boisterous smile on the face of Rain, who is faking laughter. "Yeah, you know what? Fuck you. This isn't funny."

"Actually, it is."

"You Irish bastard."

"Shut up, Godzilla."

A brief stare down ensures, and Rain manages to catch a good glimpse of the girl standing in front of her. He's presumably Rain's friend from Japan in real life, and despite the fact that they like to talk trash to each other, they're irreplaceable friends. Now, this girl is called Wendy, but Rain doesn't know this yet. The name of the avatar can be found on the top of the map, and Wendy saw it by accident while scrolling around the map after he calmed down from the initial surprise of having his avatar turned into a girl. Anyway, her body is almost identical to that of Rain, only a couple of centimeters shorter. As stated before, she seems to be Asian in her complexion, and therefore her skin tone is a little bit darker than that of Rain. She's pretty pale for an Asian though, which is a proof of her mixed heritage. Unlike Rain, who has her abnormal eyes and ears, Wendy looks exactly like a normal human female. Only thing unusual about her are her eyes are ocean blue though, which are not typical for Asians. Her hair is pitch-black, straight and smooth, and long enough to reach her hips. She has her hair tied to twin tails with a pair of seemingly invisible elastic hair ties. She has a skintight sleeveless black shirt on, which barely covers her bellybutton, and she's wearing blue and short ripped jean shorts. Her shoes are almost identical to those that Rain has, but her socks are much shorter.

"What are you looking at anyway?" Wendy asks.

"Oh, I was just thinking that you're like, super cute."

"Are you trying to annoy me on purpose?"

"No, I'm trying to encourage you to look positively."

"Easy for you to say, mister 'I'm going to play as a loli'."

"Oh, you. Anyway, what should I call you?"

"What's wrong with calling me Kensuke, as you always do?"

"No way. That's a boy's name."

"I'm not telling you the name this stupid game gave me."

Rain raises her fist and says: "On a count of three." Wendy knows what's up. They're playing rock paper scissors, and Wendy is up for a challenge. Rain ends up winning with a paper though. "Yay, I won."

"It's Wendy…"

"Nice to meet you, Wendy", Rain says and offers her hand to her friend. "I'm Rain."

"Oh, it's similar to your actual player name." On the corner of her eyes, Wendy sees someone approach them. It's a third girl. "Oh, you got turned into a girl too?"

"Yeah…" she says. "What a nightmare…"

"So, what's your name?" Rain asks.

"Come on now…" the girl says. "You know it's Sven."

"This motherfucker forced me to tell him my avatar's name", Wendy complains aloud.

"I didn't force you to do shit, Wendy."

"Yes, you did!"

"No, I just wanted to play a game of rock paper scissors."

The girl who has so far only refers to herself as Sven, is the last person in this trio of close friends. Her body is a little bit different to that of Rain and Wendy. She is the tallest of the three, but not by a large margin. This makes her limbs a little bit longer by default. She actually has breasts, tiny as they may be, but barely there, they are budding, and therefore exist. She's a blond with a long, straight hair, which she prefers to keep open. Like Rain, she has pointy ears, but these are even longer and pointier. Her green eyes are very much normal though. Now, to her clothes, which she only has one major piece of. She is wearing a creamy white dress closely resembling a cheongsam, a traditional body-hugging Chinese dress. Where it differs from a typical one is that it doesn't have the trademark high collar. She's also wearing long, white boots and knee socks of same color. "Don't laugh, but it's Angel…" she says as she reveals her avatar's name. Angel is overall a very quiet and timid girl. Her demeanor is closeted, shy and overall lacks confidence. She tends to drop her guard and act very cheerful around her close friends, and she even has a fierce side to her. "I don't like this… I can't accept this as me… I just want to log out…"

"Don't be boring", Rain says. "We have only started."

"Yeah, I mean, this is just an alpha test", Wendy says, trying to reason with Angel, who looks very sad and upset. "I don't like this either, but it's not THAT big of a deal, right?"

"Besides, you're cute too", Rain says. Her words make Angel blush in embarrassment and render her unable to speak anything in return.

"Way to read the mood, Rain", Wendy scolds. "I swear to god, you're the most insensitive person I know."

"I'm actually very sensitive, in more ways than one", Rain jokingly says. "Anyway. Where to, boss?" Rain is referring to Wendy, who happens to be one of the high-ranking officers in the guild they're from. Rain and Angel, on the other hand, are just a simple raiders, and both of them hate organizing things in general.

"Oh, let's head to the outskirts to try out our powers as we wait for the first quest", Wendy suggests. "Speaking of which, what kind of classes do you guys play? I'm a Ranger, and I plan on dual wielding guns."

Rain introduces herself as a Soldier, while Angel keeps pouting as the three girls start walking ahead. "Cheer up already, will you?" Rain says, sincerely trying to cheer Angel up.

"I'm a Caster…" Angel finally says. "I want to be a hybrid between a spellcaster and a healer."

Wendy smiles happily. "Great. This should be a good party then, provided that Rain actually tanks for us."

Rain thinks about Wendy's suggestion for a minute. "Well it's not what I had in mind, but I guess I am de facto tank of the party." Rain stops suddenly and realizes something crucial. "Where are our weapons though? We don't seem to have any." She opens up her game menu and picks the inventory. Instead of finding weapons there, a new option appears. She can actually pick her starting weapon from multiple existing choices. They are all similar in stats, and range from swords to maces, from axes to staves. The options seem to be all suited for a melee combat role. There are only three classes in game, which then can be customized later in game, presumably. For example, leather wearing sneaky assassin and plate wearing sword and board warrior would both fall under the same class banner of a Soldier. On that note, though, Rain realizes that shields do not seem to exist in this game. She picks up a massive sword, a weapon she's the most familiar with.

By the time Rain gets a hold of her new weapon, Wendy and Angel both seem to have figured out how they can get a hold of their respective weapons as well. Just like Wendy said, she decides to pick up a pair of pistols, which seem very futuristic and therefore feel extremely out of place in this forest full of treehouses and flowers. Despite being a high-fantasy game, there is a science fiction element to Nymphsaga, and this is the first solid proof of that. Angel, on the other hand, decides to pick a simple staff, only to find out she has another choice to make. The game won't just give her a set of spells, and it wants her to choose her starting spell set. To be able to do this, she must choose a "Spell Crystal", which will unlock one element for her to use. She chooses a Holy Crystal, as it can be used for healing.

Next, all three move onto their spell books, all of which appear almost empty. There really are just a handful of abilities. For Rain and Wendy, those abilities don't even deal damage, but rather add a multiplier to standard weapon swings, or in Wendy's case, shots. For Angel, things are almost the same, since the spells have to deal a set amount of damage to function properly. Fitting to her name, Angel only has holy spells in her arsenal, which is about as large as Rain's and Wendy's arsenals combined.

Next up, talent trees. Wendy is the first to get there, but he can't open it, since the option is greyed out. "Looks like we can't open up talents yet."

"You're right. Same thing for professions", Rain realizes.

"And quests", Angel adds.

"Maybe those things open up once we get there", Wendy speculates. "Either way, let's move out."

…

As our three heroines move forward, the forest turns thicker and harder to navigate. There is no distinct border between Grove and the wilderness, but there are not a whole lot of enemies in the nearby forests. As they get closer to the great magical barrier, which separates the safe Grove from the dangerous wilderness ahead, they finally start finding enemies. They are limited to deceptively cute, yet deadly critters, and to giant insects, largest of which are the size of an average housecat. Upon death, enemies disintegrate into air after a short period of time, vanishing as particles.

Now, a little backstory and information about these three friends.

They have known each other for over a decade. They were part of a different guild in a different, more old school popular roleplaying game of the past, which shall remain unnamed. The lad from Ireland is the oldest of the three, and when he met his friends, they were both still only in their early teens. The longstanding, multiplatform guild they are a be part of, consists of over fifty likeminded gamers. While there have been a lot of changes as far as the guild roster is considered, the core of the guild has remained the same. While all of these three players are part of this core, none of them actually consider each other to be their very best friend, or a preferred partner. They are no strangers to playing together as a group; but Kensuke has his girlfriend, who he likes to play player versus player content with together; Sven has his close group of friends he likes to hang out with in real life as well; and Gregory, who is the man behind Rain, finds solace in playing solo content, with his own company as his greatest ally. When they get together, they usually find themselves in a large group setting, with many other guild members around as well.

Since they have known each other for years, they also know each other's playstyles very well. Rain likes rushing in haphazardly like a blood-crazed berserker and prefers fast paced gameplay. This doesn't change in Nymphsaga. Even without the high-end equipment her character in Mormia has, she's still like a bullet train that has gone off the tracks. She's incredibly agile and nimble, even with a heavy weapon. Wendy on the other hand is more organized, and most of the in-group communication comes from her. She's very much used to this role as an occasional raid-leader, and while she's not the greatest at dealing pure damage, she is exceptional when it comes to surveying and reading the constantly changing battlefield. You could say that her abilities when it comes to leadership actually contribute to overall performance of the people she groups with more than her actual damage. Rain and Angel both know this, and always adjust their tactics accordingly to Wendy's commands, even when they disagree with her. That's how much they trust her judgment. Speaking of Angel, she used to be a rifleman in Mormia, so her role is very different to what she has used to. Like Wendy, she's very calculated and observant, but she focuses her observations on a much smaller scale. She's very good at exploiting the weaknesses of her enemies in a one on one situation. As a supporting spellcaster one would think that these abilities play a very small role, but that's not true at all. She's very good at what she does and gets a hang of her new role as a healer quickly.

Speaking of healing, the game has no health points. Instead, it has two main resources, which are stamina and mana. Players stamina bar works as the de facto health bar but can't be compared to health as it is known in your typical RPG's, because it's also a spent resource. It is used for virtually everything, from abilities to something as simple as running. It automatically regenerates slowly, even when spending it, and its generation increases while recovering. If it runs out, its generation will be locked for few seconds and the player will be left stunned, so it's important to never run out of it completely. In-game healing, that come in form of spells and potions, also recover stamina, either instantly or overtime. Overtime spells are more efficient to use, while instantaneous effects are more like panic buttons. Soldiers are the only class in the game who use this as their primary resource, which is why they also naturally recover stamina twice as fast during normal conditions, and three times as fast while recovering. Mana is also used to power up many abilities and in the case of Casters, almost every ability. This is why Casters recover mana three times as fast as normal in all conditions. How about Rangers? They use both, but neither one to a great extent. They use stamina only to move, which depending on their weapon of choice they might have to do a lot, and they use their mana for creating ammunition and special abilities. Shooting costs no resources, ever. Since their consumption is naturally low they have no boosts their recovery either.

Now, in order to penetrate the barrier holding the wilderness back and venture deep into the darker parts of the forest, players must first reach level two. This is by no means a hard task to achieve, especially for skilled players, but it does take some time. The game appears to be a little bit grindy at the start. This serves as a tutorial of sorts for beginners, as the developers don't want to rush players straight into the deep end.

With one third of the progress still ahead, the three girls receive a message about a quest, which can be completed by heading towards the central plaza of Grove.

"Oh, we finally got something", Wendy realizes. "Should we go back to see what's up?"

"Can we level up first?" Angel asks. "It's a long way back, and I don't want to waste time."

"Yeah, let's be efficient about our business", Rain says, agreeing with Angel.

Wendy, who is the odd one out, complies. "Fine. Let's reach the next level first."

"By the way, don't you find it strange that these monsters don't drop any loot?" Rain asks.

"Well, yeah, but it was also announced", Wendy reminds.

"Really?" Rain asks, as she tilts her head. "I can't remember that."

"It was about Grove only. We will get loot once we get behind that barrier."

"Whaaat? That's bullshit", Rain complains. "I want a new weapon already. This one blows."

"By the way", Angel begins. "How about professions? I heard they play a huge role in this game, as almost everything, aside from weapons and jewelry, has to be crafted."

Wendy thinks for a moment. "I haven't decided on anything yet, but scouting seems useful, as it can be used for mapping unexplored areas effectively. The only problem is that it can't be used to make money…"

"Oh, I heard that scouts can discover additional treasure to balance this out."

"Really? One of the really must pick it up then", Wendy decides. "I'll do it."

"I thought cooking would also be useful", Angel says. "As it can boost our performance."

"I was thinking about enchanting, which can be used to strengthen equipment", Rain says.

As they discuss their possible choices, they continue to fight their way forward to the next level, and as they get used to their new weapons and abilities, as well as their small childish figures, they get increasingly faster and more efficient at gaining experience. The instant they reach level two, they get another quest, which also instructs them to head to the outskirts of central plaza towards an armory to get a reward box for leveling up, presumably containing new equipment.

The way back is a long one, but none of the three girls seem to mind. After all, time flies fast when you're having fun, and fun do they have. Even Angel and Wendy, who were devastated to find themselves in an avatars they did not consent to, don't seem to care at all anymore.

All three of them get a simultaneous notice on a quest update, which none of them seem to be pleased about. The quest they got while leveling up, instructing them to gather at a central plaza, appears to be over already. In fact, it was over even before the notice popped up. The notice was about the quest disappearing from their logs.

"Oh, was it part of some event?" Angel asks, surprised.

"Well fuck me sideways", Rain says and sighs. "We have to learn about what was going on second hand now."

"Yeah, let's hope some player tells us", Angel says, as she checks out the details on other quest, and where should they be going specifically.

As Angel does this work, Wendy realizes quartet of girls walking past them, heading towards the direction they were coming from. "Yo, guys! What was that quest about?" These four girls pay no attention to our heroines, and instead blast past them, as they seem to be discussing something very passionately, and not necessarily in a good way. None of the girls in our trio seem to get what they were talking about though, but they seemed to be very, very upset. "What was that about…?" Wendy wonders. "Were they fighting…?"

"It did sound like an argument of some sort", Rain says. "Are we there yet, Angel?"

Angel doublechecks her map just to make sure they're on the right track. "Well, we WERE almost there, but there's no reason for us to go to central anymore. Let's take the road to the left from here and go return he other quest."

Just five minutes of walking later, three girls find themselves at a building built inside a stump of a massive tree. Stump alone is well over twenty meters in diameter and tall like a two-story building. There are tents set outside resembling shopping booths, but most of them are empty. There is only one Nymph waiting behind one of the booths. There are not many Nymphs around in general either. Three girls walk up to this Nymph, who is sitting down, with a smiling, yet surprisingly emotionless look on her face, with blank stare in her eyes. At first glance lifeless, she's not moving at all, but appears to be muttering something to herself in a state of shock.

"Is that an NPC?" Rain wonders.

"I guess so…?" Wendy frames this sentence as a question, since she's not for sure. This Nymph sure isn't acting like a proper NPC should act.

"Maybe she's bugged." Rain invades the personal space of the girl behind the booth and walks up to her. "Wake up, sunshine, or I'll report your arse."

Eyes of this girl appear to be moving. "Oh… What do you want…?" she asks.

"We've got a quest to turn in", Rain says and leans forward. "Give me loot."

"Leave me be… I need a moment to collect myself…"

"Maybe she's not an NPC after all?" Angel figures out. "But that's strange. There's nobody else here."

"Hey, help us out a little bit", Wendy says, and pushes Rain aside to get closer to this girl. Their eyes meet. Wendy's look worried, while this unknown, nameless Nymph dressed out like a typical NPC, looks totally broken. "What happened?"

"Were you not there…?"

"We were leveling up", Wendy explains. "We didn't make it back in time for the event quest."

A trace of life appears in this Nymphs eyes, as they finally mirror some genuine emotion. She looks very sad. "I don't even want to think about it, but… We can't log out…"

"Stop joking around", Wendy says, and opens up the game menu. He sees the log-out button and pushes it with her finger. As she does though, nothing happens. The button lights up each time her finger hits it, but that's about it. After hitting it about a dozen of times, it suddenly greys out on her. Wendy stands still, unmoving. Visibly scared and flustered, she closes the menu, only to open it again, but the button isn't even there anymore. Swearing over and over again in her mind, she finds herself panicking. And she's not the only one. Rain and Angel were trying to do the same thing.

"What kind of cruel joke is this!?" Angel screams.

Rain looks around the menu in disbelief. It's not just the log out button that's gone. There are some other crucial options unavailable as well. Compared to a user interface of a typical MMO, this one is very limited. But that is not one of her worries. She wants out. All the pep and excitement she had before has turned into panic. She wants to get out, but she doesn't know how to. No, deep down she knows, like both of her friends know. It's not that they don't know how to log out. They can't log out. They're locked inside a videogame.

Recess I

Excerpt from the Traveler's Logbook; "the Alien World that is Phantasm", entry number two, "My first impressions."

I find myself overwhelmed by this strange world. There are similarities to my world, especially when it comes to greenery and some of the animals. In fact, there are a lot of parts to this world that remind me of planet Earth. Some trees are pretty much the same, and I think I even saw a wolf! Why the hell are there wolves here?

But make no mistake about it. This is an alien world. There is no doubt about it. As I gaze towards the sky, what I see is an alien sky. I can't recognize any of the constellations. Speaking of stars, some of them can even be seen during daylight hours, which is confusing to me, because the sun doesn't feel particularly dim to me. Is it about something in the atmosphere? And then there are the other celestial bodies. I think anyone will notice the unnamed green giant first, the planet that this world rotates around. It is a gas giant, maybe about the size of Saturn. There are other moons as well. Some are big, some are small, and as I stated in my entry number one, none of them harbor life. Then, there are the clouds, if you can even call them that. They're thin and long in shape, almost like lines in the sand. They are so thin in fact that you can see the stars through most of them. They come in all the colors of the rainbow as well, but the colors rarely mix. Instead, they change according to how much light there is. It makes me wonder, does it ever rain here? It sure feels humid, at very least.

I touched upon the brightness, and it seems to fluctuate greatly as well. There are periods when the entire world will darken out as the sun hides behind the gas giant for days. Also, speaking of clouds I mentioned earlier, they seem to store light. While there are places that definitely get very, very dark indeed, most nights in most places are lit up in an eerie, mystical glow.

There is a lot of water scattered across this world, but there are no oceans. There are rivers, lakes, ponds and swamps, most of which are connected, but I'm yet to come across a single body of water that I can't see the other side of while standing on the shoreline. Mountains are plenteous, and this place seems like it can be hard to navigate on foot. Lucky for me, I've got my hybrid spaceship.

The same, eerie feel that the sky has to it, is scattered all across Phantasm and its vegetation. There is vegetation everywhere, from the poles to the equator. There are no icecaps either. Based on short-term observations made by my satellite launched a year prior to my arrival, coldest it ever gets is positive fifteen degrees Celsius (about 60 Fahrenheit), which is about the average temperature of the Earth. Then again, while the climate is much hotter than what I'm used to, it never gets abnormally hot. Overall, temperature-wise, this place feels very survivable to human life. Now, back to vegetation. Grass and leaves take some very interesting colors indeed, just like the clouds do, and I don't mean that like leaves during autumn, when they change color and fall off. No, there are entire forests of trees with purple leaves, and other colors too. Red, pink, light blue, I've seen it all. I've even seen white trees with transparent crystal leaves, and a black forest, covered in thick mist. Flowers here are quite remarkable too. They share many similar characteristics, but I've never seen most of them on Earth, anywhere. Some of them are large, too. Like seriously, you think Rafflesia is a large flower? Wait until you see what this world has to offer.

My next subject, intelligent life. There is a lot of it. This world seems to be dominated by insects of all sorts. And yes, you guessed it. They are abnormally large as well. This place is rich in oxygen, so size of the insects is to be expected. It is hard for me to tell whenever these bugs are more or less intelligent than the ones we have on Earth, but at very least most of them seem perfectly harmless. And yeah, like I said earlier, there were wolves too. Why? I just cat understand why. I haven't seen other familiar animals though.

Different kinds of humanoids seem to be scattered across this world too. While they are definitely at the top of the list when counting down species from intelligent to unintelligent, this entire world seems to lag tens, if not even hundreds of thousands of years behind us. They can build huts, tools, and communicate, but not much else. One race of humanoids on this planet resemble pigs and rats more than they resemble a prehistoric man. Yeah, just imagine a mix of an ape, a pig and a rat. They don't seem like pleasant creatures to me. Speaking of unpleasant, there are some intelligent plants here. They have minds of their own. In fact, when I set my boots for the first time on this forest, it didn't take even five minutes for me to get assaulted by a carnivorous bush of all things. It was after my body and grabbed me by my body and my limbs. Did it see me as food? Well, I shot it dead with my laser. So much of that bastard. It would've probably choked on my plug suit anyway, so I don't feel bad for it, even though it is against my code of conduct to kill living beings in alien worlds.

There are two kinds of animals, or alien creatures to be more specific, that I've never seen on earth. There are these strange blobs of slime, which seem intelligent. What are they? How do they work? I have no idea. Then, there are strange creatures that I can describe as nothing else but downright demonic. I've only seen few of them from the distance, and I can feel their bloodlust from afar. What the hell are they? They seem very intelligent to me, that's for sure.

In any case, I've got a lot of exploring and researching to do on this world. I hope to return soon, but for now, I will be observing this moon from the orbit.

Signed, Rachel Parshikov, a space marine.

…

A dark cloud has fallen over Grove and left it in absolute chaos. At this point, everyone knows about what has happened and the fact that they are all locked inside the game. What this means for all of them still remains unknown, but there is something about the situation they find themselves in to be in that doesn't feel just horrifying, but downright disturbing.

Rain, Wendy and Angel heard about what had happened at the town square about an hour after they got back from the border of Grove. Out from a massive Aztec style pyramid in the middle of Grove came High Priestess Geraldina, the leader of Nymphs, who introduced herself as the head developer of the game. After that, as she stood on her balcony, she delivered her message. From word to word, her message went down like this: "Welcome to Phantasm, everyone. Some of you must have realized by now that your avatar has changed. This was intended, as Nymphs are an all-female race. In any case, this planet will be your new home going forward. I hope you will enjoy your new lives as Nymphs." Then, she would go back to her temple. While some of the players had already learned about not being able to log out at this point, the knowledge and panic didn't go widespread until this speech. After that, it was mass-hysteria.

It wasn't just players ability to log out that was unavailable to them from the start, but some other essential options to the game as well. Only options, in addition to the map, that the Nymphs have available, are the ability to open up inventory, character page, quest log, talent tree, grayed-out recipe book for professions, and finally, the spell book.

Let's start off with the inventory. It is small, and very limited, meaning that Nymphs can't carry much stuff around with them. Instead of being limited to slots, it is limited to weight. Weapons are excluded from this count, as it would be unfair for Nymphs like Rain who wield heavy weapons. When item gets taken out from the inventory, it will materialize and be immediately useable. There is also an expiration mechanic to the inventory. Many fresh items you would expect to spoil in real life, like food ingredients, will spoil in game too after a set time limit. It is also worth noting that there are a lot of items in game that can't be put in inventory at all, such as cooked food. It has to be cooked on spot and consumed immediately. There are some exceptions to this rule, which come in form of rations, which can be created by Nymphs who pick up cooking as their profession. It is also worth noting that vast majority of the items that are in this game are not bound to any one character. Once they're conjured, they can be traded - and even stolen - freely, with once again, a noticeable exception of weapons, which seem to defy most of the rules.

Second comes the character page, which really is just a page. It is the summary of some information and stats about the Nymph in question, including all of the items that Nymph is wearing at any given point, as well as positive and negative status altering effects. Now, this raises up the question of gear. How is it worn and equipped if not through the character page or the inventory? Turns out Nymphs have to physically dress up themselves, like in real life. They can store their unused gear and clothes in the inventory, but that's about it. On that note, as speculated by Rain before, Nymphs can - and in many cases must - get naked. Their bodies are fully functional and extremely realistic down to the littlest of details.

Quest log is a feature that is available to Nymphs, but seems mostly dormant, as there are no real quests around. The concept of quests is mostly unknown to Nymphsaga, as the game relies much more on group activities, grinding and situational events. As far as NPC's to hand out these possible quests go, there is none. The few intended NPC's that the game had were hired for alpha test were employees for the "Mormia Studios" and there were real people behind these avatars. There are about ten Nymphs with a unique ability to give out the quest reward for the only quest that players have discovered. After everyone gets past that point, they, just like every other Nymph, must participate in playing the game like every other player. Only exception to this rule seems to be High Priestess Geraldina, who claimed to be controlled by the head developer. Is this true, or is there more to it? For now, it is impossible to know for certain, as there is no way of getting inside the pyramid or getting Geraldina out from there. Now, with no quests to go around, aside from the one Nymphs get when they hit level two, quest log remains greyed out and unusable. Nobody has reached level three yet, so it's uncertain to everyone what kind of role quest log will hold in the future.

Since I've already gone through the spell book, and since the recipe book is unavailable for those who haven't picked up a profession yet, let's skip straight to the talent tree, which comes available to players at level two. First talent is the same for everyone, and it is called "The Wings of Phantasm". It gives Nymphs wings, literally. After all, Nymphs are fairy-like, like advertised. These wings can be toggled on and off, free of charge, whenever and wherever, but only if you can do it. Most Nymphs have no idea how to toggle them, as the spell doesn't come with clear instructions. Wings also rely on a third kind of resource, which is called source. Apparently, this "source" is some form of energy which is scattered all over the world of Phantasm, and like mana, it also grows inside Nymphs. Unlike mana though, source is difficult to draw out from within oneself, as a large majority of it lies dormant and inaccessible to Nymphs, but it's very easy to draw from the environment. What does this source do aside from powering up these Phantasmic wings? Nobody seems to know yet but considering that it is all over the place and even within the Nymphs, it must be something very, very significant. Next come the class specific talents, and there are three sets in total, one for each class. All of these class specific talents are passive abilities, which bring very little to none to the table. For each set, there are eight options available, each of them for a different mastery. They are scattered around "The Wings" in a shape of a eight-pointed polygon, and Nymphs can only pick two of them; one at level three, and one at level four. There are no other talents besides this, and the choices can't be undone, at least by any means Nymphs know of right now. It might be possible in the future. This also means that once players get to level four, they have reached the max level, as they can't get any more talent points. After this they must rely completely on professions, training to learn new skills and getting better equipment.

Now, for the things Nymphs can't do. There are too many to list, but these are few that one would perhaps expect from a videogame. First thing that springs to their mind is the lack of trainers and new abilities. How are they acquired? Through consumable spell scrolls, which can be acquired by many different ways. They can be created with professions, bought directly from library using gold coins, or by looting them on adventures. There is also a noticeable lack of in-game communication, which is completely unavailable. There is no messaging system, no voicemail or phones, no chats, nothing. All communication must be done face to face, or by hand-written letters, that in turn have to be delivered by someone.

In many ways, the game that is Nymphsaga feels more like a real world than it feels like a game. In a sense, to the people trapped inside, it feels more like a fantasy world simulator than a typical RPG. They have physical needs too and have to sleep and eat in order to keep going. They sweat and get dirty too, so they kind of have to take care of their hygiene too. Then again, these things are something that is probably to be expected from an inescapable game.

…

If there is one silver lining to the fact that the Nymphs are trapped, it's the fact that this tragedy has brought the community together. Everyone is trying to do their best and learn about the world around them, so they can survive and more importantly, work together. Friendships are formed between strangers and a lot of information is shared and passed through. All of the information stated above, for example, is something that all three of our heroines have come to learn during the period of one day.

But now, the night is falling. Since there are not too many lights around, darkness is going to overtake Grove, which brings me to the last game-related feature I want to talk about: Player housing.

Every Nymph deserves a home, a roof to sleep under. Since Grove is a large place, there are many options available for them. In fact, there are more empty houses than there are Nymphs in the city. Every Nymph has to claim herself a home within one week, or exactly 168 hours from the start of the game, or risk becoming homeless. After this period all new houses will cost them. Luckily for homeless Nymphs, moving in to a new home is always cheap, as is moving from one place to another. Rain, Wendy and Angel want to live close to each other, but don't want to live under the same roof. They search for a place to settle in and find a fancy looking tree at the outskirts of Grove, with three houses on top of each other, all of which are partially built inside the tree, none of which are settled.

Now, what kind of homes are there available for Nymphs? Most of them are single room apartments similar in size, around 30 square meters or 320 square feet in size, and are primarily used for sleeping, taking care of oneself, training professions, and for storage, which works as an extended inventory. Every house also comes up with an outdoor facility of some sorts, which can be either for personal use only, or open for all members of the neighborhood to share collectively. Trio of apartments that Rain, Wendy and Angel come across, comes with a very pleasant looking terrace, a customizable yard and even a garden to grow custom plants in, all of which they decide to share to each other for now. Professions play a big part in housing as well, since they can be used to upgrade houses, add additional rooms to them, and even add more outdoor facilities for oneself or neighbors to use.

Wendy gets the top floor, while Rain gets the bottom floor. Wendy doesn't care much about having a quick access to outdoor facilities or ground level, so it's the best choice for her. Rain, on the other hand, finds ground level to be preferable, as she found out enchanters can connect tunnels and caves to their homes when they are expanded. This leaves Angel with the middle floor, which she silently accepts. There are also other houses close-by, but none of them house any residents yet. They found themselves a silent corner to live in.

As far as these three girls are concerned, the panic and fear has almost completely turned into grief. Are they ever going to get out? Are they ever going to see their families and friends again? The questions torment their minds.

Wendy leans against the railing of the stairs that lead to the higher floors of this apartment tree and lets out a heavy sigh. "I'm so done…"

"Wanna chat before we go asleep?" Rain, who is unsurprisingly all out of jokes, suggests.

"Yeah, let's chat", Wendy says. "I can go check out my house later."

Angel doesn't seem interested, and instead starts walking upstairs towards her new house. "I want to be alone…"

"R-right…" Wendy says as she gazes at her friend worried. "Good night."

No reply. Angel doesn't want to talk. Rain and Wendy are left together.

Wendy is finding it very hard to hold back her tears. "I miss Hanako so much…" Rain instantly recognizes the name of Kensuke's girlfriend in real life, but is unable to find the confronting words for her friend. She can sympathize with her on some level but having been a bachelor living alone for half of her life, feels that she isn't even in any kind of position to say anything. "I just want to see her again…" Wendy says, wiping her face with her hands.

"Come here…" Rain finally says and walks closer, extending her arms wide to offer Wendy a hug. "It's okay to cry. I'm not going to make fun of you it, ever." Wendy nods and leans into her friend for a hug, and what a warm and nice hug it is. After all, the world they find themselves in feels as realistic as the real world on the physical level. "There, there. Cry it all out."

"What the hell have we gotten ourselves into…?" Wendy asks, weeping. "We don't even know anything… What should we do, how to get out, it's all a mystery…"

"Let's meanwhile stay strong and try our best to get better. Let's not get defeated, okay?"

"Yeah… I agree… Thanks, by the way…"

Rain isn't sure what Wendy is thanking her for, but regardless, she says: "You're very welcome."

"You know… I often say I hate you, and I get annoyed by you, but it's the moments like these that I remember how precious you are to me…"

Rain almost feels like burping out a joke about how Wendy sounds like she's proposing, but immediately realizes that it would be too much for her right now, especially since she grieves over her lost girlfriend right now. "And you know what… Wen… Um, I mean… Kensuke…"

"You were totally going to call me Wendy just now, weren't you…?"

"Yeah, I admit… But I just wanted to say, you're precious to me too… You're such a good friend…"

"Thank you, Rain…" Wendy says, and smiles, as the hug ends. They backpedal away from each other. "I'm sorry… I must look terrible."

"Like I said, just cry if you feel like it."

"How about you…? Are you feeling fine?"

"…" Rain, who as stated before, barely expresses emotion through her face, also isn't prone to laugh or cry. It is hard for Wendy to tell what Rain is thinking and how she is feeling. "How could I be fine…"

"Yeah, I suppose. I'm sorry for even asking…"

"It's fine, I'm not offended. I'm just trying to keep up a somewhat positive attitude."

"I should try some of that too, but… It's just so fucking hard right now…"

"Yeah, I know… It's hard for me too…"

Wendy gazes up towards the second floor. "I'm also worried for Sven."

"I'm also worried for him… He's taking all of this even worse than us."

"He was so upset at just having his avatar turned into a girl. I honestly don't even care anymore. I can deal with being a girl, but him? He must be going through some heavy shit right now."

"Yeah, being a lass isn't the problem for me either. Being stuck here is."

"Yeah, and for him, to be stuck as something he absolutely doesn't want to be… It must be terrible."

"In any case, I'm getting tired", Rain says. "Let's go to bed, okay? Being alone and relaxing wouldn't probably hurt us either."

"Yeah… See you tomorrow, Rain."

"Oh, and starting tomorrow, I'm going to start calling you Wendy again", Rain says, giving her a thumbs up.

Wendy doesn't have the strength to lash out or retort in any other way, so she just sighs and walks away silently.

…

For an early and full disclosure, Angel goes straight to sleep, or at least tries to, while Rain proceeds to explore her naked body. Strangely enough, she doesn't end up masturbating, despite the fact that the prospect of female orgasm tickles her curiosity greatly. But this isn't about that. This is about Wendy, who has found her silence and peace in the solitude of her own apartment. She sits on the side of the bed, looking around the cute house. Almost everything is made out of wood, like a log house. Windows and doors are both completely circular. There really is everything one would expect from a small apartment, but of course, no technology whatsoever. Light is provided either by the sun outside or by lamps with strange, floating energy balls trapped inside of them. As she doesn't want to sit down, she decides to find out what are behind the one door she can find in her apartment. To no surprise, there is a small bathroom with a sink, big mirror and a bathtub, complete with a shower. While there is no technology, at least plumbing looks somewhat modern if you ignore the part that everything is made out of leaves, wood and rock.

Immediately after discovering the mirror, Wendy finds herself in front of it. She has only seen herself from between her own shoulders, looking down at her own body, so her face is a complete mystery to her. Instantly surprised by her reflection, she can't think of no other word than "Cute". Kensuke is not into children sexually, as he likes her women mature and busty, but he does also like cute things, and finds kids to be very cute. The man inside her can't help but to be enchanted by the cuteness of his avatar. She secretly finds other Nymphs she has seen to also be cute, but it's completely different when it comes to herself. There's just something completely different about it.

"Alright…" she whispers to herself, deep in thought. "Time to get naked."

She starts off with her top, and finds her raw and bare, perfectly flat chest underneath. She's not just flat, but also very skinny overall. Only exception to this rule is her hips, which are proportionally wide, but not abnormally so. While she's used to flat chest in real life - after all, he's really a man - the bare chest of a prepubescent girl is very, very different to that of a man, or a boy. She takes her hands and touches both of her breasts, pushing her palms against them. 'It doesn't feel that weird', she thinks, 'But I can't deny that they feel sensitive.'

She finds herself suddenly asking herself, what the hell is she doing? Is she really doing this? What's more, she can't deny her arousal. Where is it coming from? She wasn't feeling aroused at all before, but seeing her own, half-naked body has made her very curious. Slowly, she opens up the buttons of her shorts, and pulls them down, only to find plain white underwear beneath. Then, she undresses her panties as well. Since the mirror is designed to inspect face and hair, she can't see very well even when taking few steps back from it. She settles for a bird's eye view, turning and twisting her body to get a good look of her butt. 'Bubbly, yet firm', she thinks and taps her own ass softly. 'My ass is actually pretty hot, for a kid's ass anyway. If only I was about ten years older. Maybe this would then be even more interesting to experience.' She notices her clear blush on the reflection and finds herself getting increasingly aroused. But she resists. There's no way she's going to go all the way. But she got naked, so why not? No, she comes up with an excuse and takes a nice shower.

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all, as far as trying to resist the urge to do something dirty goes. In a process of showering, she ends up rubbing her hands around her body, getting a good feel of her soft, silky smooth and warm skin. She ends up closing the shower and proceeds to dry her body with a massive, pink towel.

'Yeah, what's the harm anyway', she asks herself and sits down on the bed, spreading up her legs. 'I don't care if I'm a kid. I'm going to masturbate.' She can't see well from the angle she's in, but there is a very noticeable gap between her legs. Visible, easy to see genitals have been completely taken away from her, and replaced by a cute little mound, complete with puffy lips and everything that's hidden in between. She gives up on trying to see it, because does she need to see to pleasure herself? The answer is a resounding no. Her hands reach into her groins very well, which is more than enough. She starts with just one finger, pushing against her slit. Almost as if opening it, she slides it up and down, slowly and carefully. She can feel a slight wetness of her immature vagina. 'I'm starting to get really wet. It doesn't feel that special, except when I touch my clit.' Even if she thinks so, she can't stop. She ends up spreading and bending her legs even more, curling even her toes up a little bit. A very much expected touch to her clitoris makes her squeal involuntarily, yet softly in surprise. She finds herself surprised by her own reaction. 'Shit, this is good! I can't stop anymore! I'm going all the way!'

She finds herself laying on her back, and as her panting starts to feel heavier, she suddenly gets worried about Angel hearing her moan. She doesn't know how well sound carries to other apartments, but she thinks it's a good idea to resist her moaning. She knows she should really stop, as she's afraid she can't resist, but she can't. She just simply can't. Her fingers are glued to her pussy.

One hand is not enough for her, so she introduces another one. She's pretty much playing constantly with her clit, but she hasn't even reached down her honey pot yet. Without hesitation, one finger enters inside her hole. 'Oh fuck, it's so small…! Holy shit, so tight…!' It's soft, hot and covered in juice all the way inside. Her finger can't reach as deep as she wants, but at least she can move her finger around her fleshy insides, although carefully. Another finger comes to the play, and she sticks both of them in at the same time. A loud moan escapes her mouth, as it just keeps getting better. She stops playing with her clit and covers her mouth, as the other hand continues to move in and out of her vagina. 'Oh no, Sven will hear me at this rate! But I can't stop! I wanna cum so hard right now!'

She stops just enough to grab a hold of a blanket. She presents it on top of her chest and bites into it in a desperate attempt to muffle her voice down. Then, the play resumes. She can't be too far away from coming all over her fingers. Her head feels blank and hot. 'Oh my gosh, oh yes! Is this what it feels like? This is unreal! I'm gonna come at any moment!' Well, she got that one right, as she really is about to orgasm. Even without experiencing a female orgasm ever before she can tell from how her body trembles. A sudden, powerful feeling her control of her, as her entire body stiffens up and convulses on its own. Every time she thinks she has hit the peak and it starts to fade, it just resets. She finds herself in a non-stop chain of orgasms. Or is it just a one? She can't tell, but it's the most powerful thing she's ever felt by far and away.

Gone all the way, she starts to slowly cool down and lets her fingers relax. Exhausted, she lays unmoving, still panting and breathing heavily. 'That was so crazy… I'm so spent…'

Not five minutes later, she's already sound asleep, comfortably under her blanket, with drool rolling down her cheek.

The First Expedition

Excerpt from the Traveler's Logbook; "the Alien World that is Phantasm", entry number five, "My final thoughts."

It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to remain objective about my research. I feel like I'm losing my sanity here. But at the same time, I feel like I have a duty to report to you about my findings, as I am the first human to set foot on this planet, and this star system in general.

There is something mysterious and unexplainable in the atmosphere. It's some kind of substance, but I can't seem to be able to analyze it properly and tell what it's about. No, it's not just one kind of substance. There are two different kinds of unexplainable substances that are scattered across this world in different quantities, both of which have a different kind of effect on me. The other one feels intoxicating, while the other one appears on my radar, but doesn't really seem to have any kind of effect on me. In some places, one of them is sparse, while the other one is plentiful. I feel like this other substance is having some kind of effect on me, and it's making me feel strange. It's almost like a sickness. Breathing in the air feels intoxicating at times. I don't know how to deal with it, but it is probably in my best interest to wear a gasmask from now on in order to avoid it having unforeseeable effects on my mind and my body.

I also have this constant feeling that I'm being watched. Is this part of the effect these substances have on me? It's hard for me to tell anymore, as I'm not even sure what's real and what's fake anymore. I feel a constant, unshakeable creeping paranoia.

As if I wasn't going crazy before, I saw something absolutely crazy. I saw a human here. A human! A little girl, nonetheless! The strangest part about her was the fact that she was naked for some reason. She looked like she was looking for something or someone. When our eyes finally met, she seemed both scared and curious of me. I ended up running away like a coward. I must really be going crazy, since there's no way there could be a human here.

I will conclude my exploration of this alien world in coming days, as soon as I finish my readings, and wait for a good moment to leave this cursed place. I plan on using the gravitational pull of the gas giant to catapult myself towards the mothership in exactly 35 hours, as it will be the most fuel-efficient way to escape this place, per calculations of my computer simulations. My desire to stay here has dwindled, and I do not see much benefit in continuing my research here. I will, however, recommend a presence of a satellite to study and monitor this world from afar, preferably from the orbit around it.

Signed, Rachel Parshikov, a space marine.

…

It is the morning of the first full day for Nymphs of Phantasm. To say that their motivation to start their adventure in Nymphsaga is low is a huge understatement. Nine out of ten Nymphs don't care about going outside to the higher-level zones, as they either think it's in their best interest to study the game from within the safety of Grove for now. Many also simply grieve over their misfortune of being stuck in a videogame world, which is eating away their motivation even more. There are, however, those as well, who believe it's in their best interest to explore the world to perhaps get information about the true nature of the game, or at very least get stronger in the progress of trying.

One of the people who is not motivated to go out and explore in any way, shape or form, is Angel. What's behind her is a long, sleepless night, consisting of mostly laying down, rolling uncomfortably around in a bed, and occasionally crying. She has been thinking a lot about deep philosophical subjects, like what it means to be a human, what it means to be alive, what is real and what is not, and what is it even like living a life in a simulation. She has even asked herself, is a life lived stuck inside a videogame even worth living? Now, she finds the idea of ending it all more unacceptable than being stuck inside a game ever would be, but she can't shake the question off her mind. After all, there might be a way out.

Angel wakes up to a soft knock on a circular wooden door, echoing in her small apartment. She can feel the bright sunlight on her body, shining through the thin, see-through curtains on her windows. Immediately reminded of the mess she is in, she sits up, but doesn't have the strength to get to her feet, or even answer verbally. She knows that she probably should get up, because she knows that it's her friends outside.

"Are you there? are you alright?" It's the voice of Wendy, which she has come to recognize. Since the soundproofing in Grove's apartments are absolutely pathetic, she can hear voices pretty clearly.

"Maybe she's still sleeping", Rain says. "Let's give her time."

"Yeah… But what should we do meanwhile? We can't go out exploring without her."

"Let's hit the library. There's still probably something we can learn there."

Those ends up being the last words Angel hears, as she lays down on her back, arms and feet stretched out. She was starting to get worried that she would have to force herself up and running on short notice. She still doesn't feel like doing anything, as she feels depressed, but at the same time, she has decided to do something productive instead of just holing up in her apartment.

…

As mentioned before, there has been a lot of information given out and shared between Nymphs. While some of it are due to Nymphs learning about their abilities and the game themselves independently, a lot of information can also be found in the library of Grove, located near the city center. It is considered to be a public utility which every single Nymph living in Grove can contribute to. Information learned throughout the game will be included for everyone to read through "lore pages", should the discoverer of this information decide to hand it out to the library. While it is not required from Nymphs to do this, everyone kind of agrees that they should do this, should they come across new information.

Library of Grove is built inside a massive, hollow tree stump. Built inside the wood itself several corridors can be found in this ring-shaped building, while within the buildings perimeters is a large park with a pretty little pond, emanating source, allowing Nymphs to draw it from the air around them to use their wings without having to rely on their own source. This comes in very handy, especially since there are higher floors, and platforms, none of which are accessible without flying.

While most of the books on the shelves are nothing but books full of empty pages, there are many books that can be read, and even used. There is a little section in library for every single profession in Nymphsaga. By simply opening the magical Codex, which can be found laying on a pedestal near the bookshelf devoted to each profession, Nymph will be given a choice to learn the profession. They must choose wisely, however, since they can only have one at a time.

Like they discussed earlier, Rain picked up enchanting, while Wendy picked up scouting. Rain gained nothing but two recipes, one to make enchanted spell stone and another to make an empty soul stone, both of which are used for enchanting gear. While spell stones are complete products, soul stones are not, and must be filled with a soul of an enemy. She also gains a spell to actually do the soul extraction part, which will be explained later in this very chapter. (This idea is shamelessly stolen from The Elder Scrolls franchise, where same exact thing can be done with a Soul Trap spell.) Wendy, on the other hand, was greeted by an empty recipe book in her professions tab but gained two new passive abilities and one useable ability to her spell book. First passive ability is receiving extra loot, while the other one is the ability to see hidden troves, enemies, entrances and traps better. Useable ability is called "Inspect", which can be cast free of charge every minute to learn various stats about a selected enemy. Learned stats are always random, and not always useful.

As far as learning new recipes go, players have to learn them either by coming up with them or by reading a recipe from a book and recreating it. There are some exceptions to this, as every single profession works in a different way, and there's just too much information to go through.

After finally learning about professions, Wendy is already about to head back to her new home, as Rain grabs her arm and stops her. "Where do you think you're going?"

"What do you mean?" Wendy asks, confused. There is no more to learn from the library for them, or any other well-read Nymph for that matter. Only way to gain more information at this point is to discover it from the wild.

"Let's fly", Rain suggests, with a visible excitement in her eyes.

"Fly? Here? Why?"

"There's source everywhere!" Rain says and extends her arms out wide in excitement. "Besides, it could be a useful ability to learn."

"Oh, right. How do we toggle wings again?"

"I have no idea", Rain admits, and opens up her spell book. While the wings are there, there seems to be no instruction to how to use them. Usually with abilities, there's always an instruction. For example, with a powered-up strike or a slash, Rain must channel mana to her arms as she is swinging her sword to activate the ability. As it is a melee ability, none of her mana will be used, and instead it will drain her mana. As far as channeling mana goes, she just kind of knew how to do it. It is hard-coded, like walking. Wings of Phantasm require source, and Rain doesn't how to channel it. It seems to be more like swimming or riding a bicycle as opposed to walking and has to be learned. She looks around and sees a Nymph about her size with wings, as she happens to lands from the sky next to Rain. It's the first time she's seen wings live, and they're the most amazing looking things she's seen in-game so far. Like thin, white crystal shards in a shape of butterfly wings, they shine in amazing, bright colors, and emanate pure, visible energy of golden color. They do not seem to be connected to her back physically, but the energy seems to touch her back, and hug onto it. Rain immediately grabs this strangers' hand as she's walking away. "Hold up."

This Nymph, who is exactly the same size as Rain, turns fully to her in surprise. Her pale hair, colored like a mix of pink and blonde, is long and curly, tied loosely with a ponytail, and her green eyes are so beautiful that they look almost as if they're sparkling. The sparkle is constant part of her, just like Rain's cogwheel eyes. She's also wearing a cute little tiara on her head. A wide smile appears on her face, as she brightly asks: "What's up?"

"How do you fly?"

"I don't know!" girl answers loudly. Rain tilts her head in surprise, and presses her hand against her jaw in thought, which just causes the stranger to laugh. "No, seriously, I have no idea how to explain it! I just, like, kind of knew how to do it or something."

The stranger's hyped up and fast-paced voice leaves Rain even more confused. "Well… I have no idea how wings work."

"Aww, that's not good! I hope you learn to fly soon! It's so awesome and amazing!"

"Can you give me a hint at least?"

"Ummm, it works kind of like mana. It just happens like magic!"

"Could you have maybe done something I haven't?"

Girl blinks rapidly few times with a mysterious smile on her face, as she says: "Who knows?"

"Oh, I think I did it", Wendy says and looks at her own wings. While the general shape of them is the same as with this stranger, they have a slightly different shape. All the wings look the same in terms of shape from afar but are in fact unique, kind of like fingerprints. The bigger difference comes with their dark blue and black color, combined with a purple colored energy rays. She tries moving them, but they do not seem to do much.

"Yeah, yeah, exactly like that!" girl says and nods multiple times as she does. "Flying is really easy as well! You don't have to move your wings at all! Just imagine yourself flying!"

Wendy closes her eyes and imagines herself in the air. Before long, she finds herself levitating. She can't really control her newfound ability well, and just like a baby gazelle learning to stand up for the first time, she finds herself flat on her butt on the ground. "That's not actually that easy…!" she complains, but laughs at the same time anyway.

Rain is left looking from the sidelines, reeking of envy, as she really has no idea what she's doing wrong. She's trying her best to muster up some willpower to power up her wings, but nothing works. Arms crossed, she says: "I didn't wanna fly anyway."

"Come on, don't be salty", Wendy says and laughs.

Nameless girl taps Rain on her back and tries to encourage her: "You'll get there! Don't mind!"

"I'm a little jealous now…" Rain admits, with a long face. "What's your name by the way? I'm Rain."

"It's Tiara! Nice to meet you!"

"Well, enough of that", Wendy says and makes her wings disappear. "Let's go, Rain, and go wake Angel up."

Rain nods at her friend, and they head toward their home. Both of them wave the cheerful stranger goodbye, as she joins her own group of friends, immediately starting to discuss going out to have an adventure.

…

Meanwhile at home, Angel continues to lay down and wait. She hears voices coming from outside before her friends even get close to her door and decides to finally get up. She meets her friends outside the door, just as they're about to knock on it.

"Oh, you're finally awake", Wendy says.

"I actually woke up when you knocked", Angel admits. "Have you found out anything?"

"No, and neither has anyone else", Wendy tells with a gloomy tone. "I suppose we should go train."

"Should we continue to train within Grove?" Rain asks. "Since we don't know what happens if we die and all that scary stuff."

"Yeah, now that I think of it, nobody has died yet…" Wendy realizes, and nods.

"Yeah, that's a good idea", Angel says. "Let's go."

"I'm glad you're cheered up a little bit", Rain says and lays her hand on Angel's shoulder. "Keep your chin up, will you?"

"I'll try…" Angel says and nods. "I just hope we find out more about this world soon."

…

First thing the three girls do before they go is pick up fruits from the trees on the way. It won't boost their stats or anything, but it well keep the hunger away. And best of all, it's all free!

They arrive near the border of the zone and start killing enemies left and right. As soon as they find one, they charge at it. They're slow to start, but once they get rolling and find their grove, they feel like they're back at where they left last time around. All of them also have one ring to accompany them and boost their stats. With about a dozen of enemies dead in their trail - figuratively, since corpses disintegrate - they realize something.

"They don't seem to be giving out experience anymore", Rain realized.

"Really?" Wendy doesn't believe at first, but when she double checks her experience bar, which by the way, is displayed next to the level on the top right corner of the character page, she sees it unmoved. She has only one out of one hundred percent, which is where she left after turning out the quest at barracks. "Looks like you're right. Let's move outside the barrier then."

They know they are very close to the protective barrier of Grove, but they can't see it, as it appears invisible from the distance. When they get close to it, however, they finally see part of this dome-shaped barrier. Since the Grove is a big place, it appears as a wall in front of them, with a barely noticeable curve. Rain, reckless as always, is the first to approach it, and tries to press her hands against it. Ripples appear on the surface of the magic field, but she cannot touch it, or even feel it. "My hand hasn't been bitten off yet, so it's probably safe."

"How much more difficult do you think the forest ahead is?" Wendy asks.

"Probably not much", Angel says. "I hope…" she immediately adds, almost whispering.

Wasting no more time, they walk through the barrier. To no surprise whatsoever, all they see is more forest ahead, with same large trees all over the place. There is only one noticeable change, which is a cloud of mist scattered across the forest, which for some reason can't penetrate the protective barrier. Thinking what comes next, they start looking around the empty forest, but decide to hug close to the barrier for a quick and safe exit in a case of an emergency. Or so, they think. They immediately notice something written on the barrier. It's a timer, ticking down second by second, from one hour to zero. This time around, Angel is the brave one to touch the barrier, only to find out that it has turned impregnable. A message pops up for her to see, informing that the barrier can only be accessed once in an hour to prevent players from abusing it for their safety.

Hands on her hips, Wendy looks at her own message floating as a hologram in front of her. "Would you look at that! We can't cheat and take breathers when we want."

"It's still probably a good idea to hug the wall", Angel says. "I don't want to get lost."

"Well let's hope we don't get our arses kicked", Rain says and lays her sword on her shoulder.

"We've been invincible so far, so I wouldn't worry too much", Wendy says.

…

Wendy did some testing with her newly learned inspection ability to dig through information about critters in Grove to get a good idea about their stats so that they would find out how much more powerful enemies outside the barrier are. Turns out, they're two to three times stronger. No, that's an understatement and doesn't tell the whole story. They're two to three times bigger, better, faster and stronger, in every category. Three Nymphs do not, however, find themselves overwhelmed. As long as they keep things in control and only challenge one or two enemies at the time, they can power through them without worries. In a pure one on one situations - or when outnumbered - they would probably face some serious trouble, but it has not even been a worry for them so far.

Insects remain mostly the same, but the critters are replaced by larger animals. They even come across a group of three goblin hunters, a party consisting of a tanky warrior, a bowman and a healer. These goblins are about a meter in length, but with all of their fat and muscle probably weigh much more than a Nymph ever could. After death, some enemies will leave a floating orb flying around, which works like a storage unit. There is a catalog of items dropped by the enemy, and players can move them to their inventories with a simple tap of a finger. It's free for all, even for people who did not participate in the kill, and therefore loot can in theory be stolen from other players. Most enemies don't drop loot, and most of the loot is limited to ingredients. They only get their first gold coins from the goblins, along with an empty wooden cup and their first ever piece of lore. It turns out being information about various kinds of low tier mushrooms in region, information that Angel finds useful given her desire to pick up cooking. Speaking of these storage units, I told about Rain's ability to capture her fallen enemy's soul. The spell can be cast on these floating orbs after they've been emptied to fill up the soul stone. It is important to point out that most stones require more than just one soul to be filled.

Finally, with an hour behind them, they show no signs of slowing down. They're not sure about how much time has passed though, and honestly, they keep getting further and further away from the barrier. With every direction looking exactly same, they would be screwed without a map.

They find something interesting. There is a clear stream of water running through the forest. They are suddenly reminded of the seemingly useless cup they came across earlier and summon it to use as a container for water.

Rain, who stole the cup right under her friends' noses, jokingly claiming it to be extremely valuable loot, is the first one to take a sip. It's a long and messy sip, as she was starting to get very thirsty. She wipes her jaw, but the water has already made it down her neck. "Water has never tasted so good…" She hands over the cup for her friends to enjoy, both of who are much more elegant and careful about their business as if careful they wouldn't get their clothes wet. "Should we head back soon? Our progress is pretty slow despite the fact that this is really exhausting."

"I was thinking about going halfway", Wendy says, "As long as that doesn't bother you."

"I'm cool with that", Angel says.

"In any case, I'm glad this is easy", Rain states.

Wendy sighs jokingly and says: "There we go. Now you jinxed it."

"Hey, even if I did, challenges are always acceptable."

"Not, when we don't know about repercussions", Wendy notes. "Anyway, we can still head towards the barrier. There are probably enemies on the way anyway." Just as she finishes up her sentence, she notices something flying very close to her. And not just something. It's a whole dozen of them. They're like fireflies, but much smaller and slower. Glowing with a weak, green hue, they swarm around her, and she finds herself surprised. "What are these? They weird me out."

"They're pretty cute to be honest", Rain says and extends her finger for one of them to land on. It almost instantly gives her a weak electric shock, which doesn't even hurt. It just feels nice and tingly. "Uhuhu, what a curious little bug indeed… They feel tingly…"

"They kind of remind me of those spirits trapped inside the lamps in our houses", Wendy realizes, with a hand on her jaw. "And here I thought Nymphs are vegan. They're happy to abuse animals when it suits their needs."

"I don't think Nymphs give a rat's arse about being vegans lore-wise, considering some Nymphs also wear leather", Rain says, shrugging. "Kind of like me, Nymphs just have a plant-exclusive diet. That's all."

"I suppose…" Wendy say, nodding deep in thought. "I kind of want a steak now…"

"Don't make me puke", Rain says, jokingly.

"There's something else as well", Angel says and points her staff at a strange, flying demonic eye, which is staring at them intensely.

Wendy, without a hesitation, shoots it down, and ends up killing it with just one shot. "Oh, maybe I should've inspected it first."

"There's more for you to inspect", Rain says, and points towards a direction of three additional similar flying eyes.

"Ewww, that's creepy as hell", Wendy says and inspects one of them. "It's literally called a demon eye. They serve as eyes for more powerful demons to help them hunt."

"Does that mean there's a demon here as well?" Angel asks, and casts a holy spell on one of the eyes, while Wendy launches three additional bullets, one of which misses the target. For the record, holy spells, which are used to heal allies, deal damage against most enemies. Angel didn't know if it works on a demon, but it seems to deal normal amount of damage to them.

A deafening roar invades their ears and they all freeze like statues in surprise and fear. There's probably something dangerous heading towards them. They all take their arms and look towards the direction of the sound. They see a bloodred demon charging towards them. It's a humanoid with hands, legs and even a tail, wearing nothing but black leather shorts reaching up to its knees, and wielding a massive sword that resembles more a stone slab than a practical weapon. It has amazing, long and black horns, and despite its humanlike angry face, it also has a nose ring. It's absolutely massive, about two and a half meters in height, and it's also fast. In fact, it's way too fast for them to escape even if they tried.

"Spread out!" Wendy commands and takes aim. She's afraid to take the first shot, since doing so would draw the attention to her, which the last thing their group wants. Attention has to be on Rain, who has the ability, the experience and the means to dodge its attacks effectively while also being able to fight back.

Rain realizes this too, but she's too scared to even move. She finds herself in a situation unlike anything she's faced before. Dying in a virtual reality setting is by no means an unknown experience to her, but now there is the element of unknown creeping into her mind. What happens if she dies? Is death it? Will she perish from Nymphsaga for good or respawn? Will she even die, or could something even more sinister happen? The idea of dying in the real life sounds absurd to her, but she can't rule out that either. Before she can even realize it, enemy is about to swing down its sword to crush her. She rolls off to the side at the last second but is way too scared to even think about striking back. Terrified, kneeling down after a successful dodge, she realizes that after a heavy swing, demon appears defenseless while it slowly picks up its sword. It's too late to attack now though, and she has to wait for the next chance. She also realizes another thing. It's a spell effect on her. Angel cast a rejuvenating heal on her to restore her stamina over time. Since Rain hadn't taken the full attention of the demon, it sets it gazes on Angel, the physically weakest of the bunch by a long shot. Rain gets on her feet and starts chasing demon, as it goes after Angel. "God damn it! Angel, focus on dodging it!"

Angel is slow to dodge the sword strike, but she manages to get out of a way unharmed. She does fall flat on her face though, which is unsurprising considering her lack of experience in such situations. Demon is quick to attack again, this time without its weapon, as it's looking to grab Angel to its giant hand. Rain sees her chance and strikes the enemy with her sword, grabbing the attention back to herself. Wendy also attacks, not caring anymore if the enemy will attack her or not. It will drain their stamina dry before the trio manages to defeat it if they don't go all out. With attention back on Rain, the enemy unleashes a barrage of strikes and slashes. They're much quicker than before and way too frequent for Rain to launch a successful counterattack, but she's good at dodging them. What's more, there is a clear pattern to its attacks. There are four quick attacks, a pause, another quick attack followed by a grabbing attempt, and then finally, a powerful swing. Such patterns are not unusual for anyone even remotely experienced in virtual reality gaming and are a staple in Mormia as well. The swings will always come from random directions, but if Rain can read the signs, which are very easy to spot, she can dodge. She knows she might be too reckless, but she also realizes that following the final attack, she can dodge forward and strike the enemy. So, she does, and attacks its tendons to get it off its feet, an attack that proves to be successful. With the enemy momentarily stunned, trio is given time to regroup. Rain already finds herself out of breath, but lucky for her, Angel, who has regained her composure, is back on point with her heals.

"We might actually do this!" Wendy shouts, summoning and loading a special cartridge to her weapon, which will add a poison bullet to her weapon. This will deal massive damage over time, but also most likely taunt the enemy enough to annoy it to the point of making her its first priority target.

"I wonder if we can execute it!?" Angel yells, sounding panicked.

"Worth a fucking try!" Rain rushes the enemy bravely, but the enemy senses her coming from behind, attacking with a quick surprise slash to start a new round of attacks. Rain manages to stop at the last minute, managing to save her life. Demon is back to its feet with its attention in Rain. The moment it feels the poison bullet burning through its flesh, however, it gazes at Wendy, running towards it even faster than angrier than before.

"I thought you slowed it!" Wendy complains and finds herself in a desperate attempt to dodge enemy swings.

"Yeah, so did I!" Rain shouts and rushes in for a save. She can't get in between them while the enemy is attacking, but she can wait for a moment to strike the way she did before. "Angel, top me up! I'm going all in!"

"You better do it! I'm running dry on mana already!"

Rain sees an opportune moment when the demon goes for the final big swing and is momentarily stunned. She thinks about going for the tendons again, but a sudden though crosses her mind. How realistic exactly IS this game? In Mormia, the game she's used to playing, if one goes for a spot where one can get a guaranteed critical multiplier, like neck for example, enemy will take massive damage but will not necessarily die. Now, there are no critical hits in Nymphsaga, but could she be able to deal more damage by hitting enemy's vulnerable spots? She tries this theory by going after enemy's limbs, and with a powered-up slash, draining half of her stamina at once, slicing enemy's arm clean in half. Suddenly roaring at tops of its lungs, enemy lost its hand and is therefore unable to pick up its sword and continue fighting properly. Momentarily stunned, it doesn't even realize that the Nymph's attack is not complete. Rain is on her last legs and can only do one final strike before falling to her knees in exhaustion, but it's worth the risk, especially now with enemy unarmed. She goes for the neck with the same slashing attack, executing the enemy and sending its head rolling.

All three Nymphs, in this sudden moment of relief, fall flat on their butts and watch their giant enemy disappear into thin air, leaving behind its loot.

"Thank fuck it's dead…" Angel says, hyperventilating. "Are you two okay!?"

"Yeah, just out of breath…" Rain complains and gets back on her knees, sweating and panting. She hasn't regained her strength to get up yet.

"I felt so useless…" Wendy admits.

"No, you were great…" Rain says and gives her friend a thumbs up sign. "Thanks for taking the attention off me when I needed it the most. You were great too, Angel."

"Yeah, thanks for doing the heavy lifting, both of you", Angel says.

"I've always had respect for tanks for doing the hardest job", Wendy says smiling and gives Rain her hand. "But I'll be honest, I never thought you would actually be good at it."

"Come on, Wendy…" Rain says and gets on her feet. "Don't be rude. I'm a literal god of war and you know it."

"Yeah, yeah, I know", Wendy says and laughs. "You smug fuck."

Angel comes in to click at the orb left. "What did it drop?" she thinks to herself and looks at the loot table. There is money, a ring which boosts mana regeneration, a pair of spare underwear and a piece of lore. "Well, the ring is mine."

Rain steals the panties and immediately summons them. They are a pair of pink and white striped panties. "Wow, they're nice."

"Why are you checking out the panties first…?" Wendy asks, giving her friend a deadly stare.

"I don't know. I just found it weird that it would drop underwear of all things."

"Do they even give any stats?"

"It says they are cursed panties…" Rain says, reading its effects, with a slight blush on her face, one that she can't hide behind her normally emotionless face. "It reads that they will mask the scent of a female at the cost of increased sensitivity."

"Stop fucking around, you pervert!" Wendy yells, blushing even more than Rain. She steals the panties from Rains hands and begins to read the holographic information window that pops up upon inspection.

"Are you sure you don't wanna give them to me?" Rain asks jokingly. "You always complain that I'm too insensitive."

"I don't think that's what the curse means…" Angel says, holding back her laughter.

Wendy finds herself perplexed by the item information given out on the panties. "Okay…? It doesn't look like you were kidding…"

Rain crosses her arms and says: "I may be an arsehat, but I'm not a liar."

"Why would something like this even exists…?" Wendy asks and tosses the panties in the stream.

"No, our precious loot!" Rain says and runs to the rescue. She picks up the panties and wrings them dry. "Don't throw my panties into a river."

"It's almost like you forgot about the lore", Angel says and picks up the little page. "It's from the Bioengineer's logbook, apparently."

"Oh, that's a new one", Wendy says. Most lore booklets come in a form of pages from a logbook. There are many of them in Nymphsaga, covering pretty much every subject in-game. They remember seeing books in library about the Bioengineer's logbook in particular, but all of those books were empty and left to be discovered. What they found was the page one of this coveted series of books, an entry they're more than happy to donate to the library for all to read, but not before they read it themselves.

"Damn, it's pretty long", Angel says and sends it to her inventory. "Let's get out of here first and read it when we get home."

"Yeah, this place turned out to be pretty dangerous", Rain says. "Hey boss, lead the way."

"You're the tank…" Wendy says.

"You're the one with an accurate map and a compass."

Wendy points at the right direction and says: "That way."

Rain nods and takes the frontal position in the party.

…

Nothing in the forest can surprise them anymore. They can handle everything that dares to stand in their way. They even manage to get to their goal, where they're halfway into their current level, with the other half left to go. After almost two hours, their adventure for the day is over. They feel like they couldn't go on any more even if they wanted to, because of how exhausting it feels. All the wear and tear take a toll on their bodies.

Now, safely inside the barrier, they immediately head home to split the loot evenly. They mostly got reagents for professions, most of which are useless to them. Thinking some of them could turn out being useful in the future, they store some of them, and the rest they take with them in hopes of finding a shop where they can either trade or sell them. But for now, they sit down at the terrace to get to the bottom of the lore page they found.

…

Excerpt from the Bioengineer's Logbook; "a Study on the History, Biology and Behavior of Nymphs", entry number one, "Inception of the Nymph, Part One."

Foreword from the translator:

The anonymous author of this translation would like to point out that most of the names, terminology and measurements written on the source material have been liberally converted from Altarian language to the ones Nymphs are more familiar with. The translation is not perfect, as there are many Altarian words and terms that are unknown to the Nymph's language, but the intended meaning and the bigger picture of the original text is should not be lost in translation.

This book will go through a recently started project on the study on Nymphs, an artificial race created by us Altarians almost a thousand years ago. This book will go through their history, physical biology as well as behavior of Nymphs as a bite-sized introductory piece for the subject. This is by no means a comprehensive study, but rather a quick overview on these curious little creatures. No matter what, do NOT let the contents of this book fall into the hands of Nymphs, and do not translate these texts to their language.

Every living being needs nutrients to live. This is a universal constant across the galaxy, even in alien worlds thousands of light years away from us. Predators eat meat, herbivores eat plants, and then there are us, the Altarians, who feast on source. Like most of the ones reading this book already know, source is a form of energy which can be found all around us in the planet Altaria in one way or another. Like moisture in air, most of it floats inaccessible to us, in air, in plants and in living beings. It has to be either extracted or artificially created to enjoy. Over the years, us Altarians have tried coming up with new, creative and most importantly, exciting ways to consume source. Almost nine hundred years ago our ancestors came up with perhaps the most innovative one yet, simply known as the Nymph.

Nymphs are creatures modeled after an alien race we discovered on a blue planet a hundred stars away from home. These aliens are small, frail and beautiful beings. Our ancestors took a great interest in them when they discovered them. The aliens were still in the early stages of their civilization, but they were intelligent to the point where it's not hard to think that in ten to hundred thousand years they could technologically surpass us, should they survive to that point on their own. In some ways, they have a lot in common with us. Like us, they have culture, and value entertainment. Like us, they require food to survive. They have a vicious side them and have wars within their own species, yet are the sole dominant being on their own world. To most of our surprise however, they, like the other aliens in their world, reproduce in an almost identical manner to us, with the only difference being that they give birth to living offspring instead of eggs. Our ancestors especially found themselves enchanted by their young ones. That's why they decided to model Nymphs after their children in specific.

Nymphs, at the time of their creation, were a scientific breakthrough of sorts. Despite their size, they can produce a lot of source, and they can do it independently, like an eternal spring of source. Another thing that makes them special is the fact that they are not themselves dependent on source for their survival, even though they are living, breathing beings. Their source generation is directly linked to their sexuality, so their source could be produced even more rapidly during heat, and directly absorbed through intercourse. I must ask you this, dear reader: can you think of a more satisfying way to enjoy your daily dose of source than through sex? I sure can't. What's best, Nymphs are very cheap to mass produce to the boot. They were at the time of their inception truly an absolute marvel of Altarian bioengineering genius.

They were, however, considered a financial failure for the company that manufactured them. For starters, they were very frail and died easily, which caused a huge percentage of them to be recalled from millions of customers and retailers alike. Company had taken a very faithful approach in designing them, which caused the product to suffer in quality. Even after making modifications on them to next generation of Nymphs stronger, the company couldn't recover from their bad reputation anymore. With over a million Nymphs left to their hands, they had to dispose of them, somehow…

…

The chapter ends there, with the second part still left to be discovered. But even with this information, the three girls find themselves shocked by the contents of this page. What they have found is a huge revelation about the true nature of the game, which they have found to be sexual. Horrified, confused and in utter disbelief, they do not even know how to process most of it.

"What the fuck have we gotten ourselves into…" Wendy mutters.

"Yeah, this has to be some kind of cruel joke after all…" Angel says, shaking.

Wendy knows, this is probably likely to not be a joke. She doesn't want to admit out loud that she has already experienced the sexual side of the game, especially to her close friends, but she very much knows that there is a possible sexual aspect to the game. She experienced it first-hand. But having read that in Nymphsaga's lore the Nymphs are an artificially created race that exists for the purpose of being fucked and for a generation of source, some kind of mysterious substance meant for consumption, she finds herself in disbelief. She's shocked and feeling sick to her stomach. That's the kind of world she's stuck in, as a Nymph, as a literal living sex toy for some alien race? "Yeah, this has to be a joke…" she says.

Rain slams her hands against the table, uncharacteristically agitated, with a clear fear mirrored in her facial expressions. "We have to tell everyone immediately!" she yells, looking at both of her friends, who just sit frozen still, devastated. "Everyone needs to know about the nature of this game!"

"Ahh, I'm so fucking done already…" Angel says, feeling like collapsing. "I feel like giving up…"

"H-hold on, no!" Rain yells loudly and stands up, knocking off her own chain in the process. "Give up, and what!? Stay here!?"

Angel answers by getting up herself. "What the fuck do you want us to do!? We don't even know how to get out, if it even is possible!"

"We have to try and find out!"

"If we go out there who knows what will happen!"

"Well what do you suggest then? Do you want us to just sit here in safety and accept our fate? Fuck that!"

"There's NO WAY in hell I'm getting out there with the possibility of getting raped looming over our head!"

"Did you already forget that we were doing great out there? If we're careful, we're going to be fine!"

"Fine? That's what you call barely getting away from that demon? For fucks sake, we killed it by a hair's margin!"

Irritated Wendy finally intercepts, with a yell of her own: "Stop fighting, you idiots!" With that one command, fighting really stops. No more shouting is exchanged between the two, or Wendy for that matter. "We can't get angry at each other. It's okay to be outraged, but we have to spare our outrage towards the enemy."

Rains sighs. "You're right… I'm sorry, Angel…" Angel just nods as a reply. "I guess the news really drove us all off the cliff…"

"My point still stands…" Angel says, repeating herself. "I feel like giving up…"

"I guess we have to just agree to disagree, because I'm not giving up, ever."

Wendy finally stands up and confronts Rain. "I don't think that's what Angel means, Rain. I agree with you, we can't give up, no matter what, but I too do certainly feel like giving up on this shit completely…"

Rain doesn't feel the exact same way, but having relaxed a little bit, she at least can understand where Angel and Wendy are coming from. She walks to Angel and offers her hand to her friend. "We're all in this together, just like every other player here is. We have a duty, and that duty starts by informing everyone about what we found. I understand it's hard. I am sympathetic towards you, I really am. But don't give me that bullshit about giving up." A tense stare down ensures between the two friends, and Angel refuses to take Rain's hand. "Let's do our duty to the community. We can have it your way and take a couple of days off to gather our thoughts after that."

Angel finally nods, and gives Rain her hand, shaking it softly. The three girls head immediately towards the library to donate this terrifying, yet valuable information to the library for all to see.

Recess II

While the trio of Rain, Wendy and Angel are unique in finding written evidence about the perverted nature of Nymphsaga, they are not the first to realize some of the enemies lust after Nymphs sexually. They hear stories from and about Nymphs who have been sure they would've been raped had they lost, and of Nymphs who have managed to avoid and even escape ongoing rape. Sex seems to be an undeniable part of the game, something that players will have to get used to. The perverted world is finally starting to unravel before the very eyes of those trapped within.

Because of these revelations, and the fact that there are even some Nymphs who have not returned home from their respective adventures, two decisions are collectively made within the community of Grove. First, nobody is allowed to leave alone, and preferably not even as a duo. It is highly recommended that groups consist of three or more Nymphs and have a diverse range of combat roles who can deal more than just one type of damage. And second, Nymphs must stick together and make friends with strangers to form a wide network where people know each other. They are all in this together, and to survive they must all help each other in this extreme time of need. Regarding these two decisions, there is a clear consensus.

With the rest of the day being off from our three heroines, they have all decided to focus on being alone and keep to themselves for time being. This is probably for the best considering that none of them are in right minds. They're all irritated, and very likely to fight over how they should go about their business moving forward. Rain, who just can't stay still in her own room, opts to take a walk and do some business meanwhile. She is motivated about one person who she met earlier the same day: Tiara.

For some reason she finds herself enthralled by this girl, who she kind of wants to get to know better to start forming a wider network of friends. Is it love? Love at the first sight is a cliché she doesn't believe in, but she can't deny her fascination on this person. Then again, Rain is not in love with her either. She just thought she would be cool to have some new friends. Tiara seemed to be motivated about going on an adventure, given the fact that she had likeminded friends - as touched before very briefly - and that is a quality that Rain values greatly. Now, Rain doesn't think she will find this one Nymph from the city considering how far and wide it is and considering how many Nymphs there are. Hell, Tiara could even be out there with her own group of friends adventuring. Unsurprisingly, on her little stroll, she doesn't come across the cheerful burst of joy that is Tiara. She has to try and make friends with other people now. Besides, she has some other business as well. She's looking for various people to trade reagents with, as she is looking to get rid of stuff she finds personally useless while getting something more useful in return. It is worth pointing out at this point that while there is money in the form of looted gold coins, nobody is actually using them, and instead just trades items for items. This is mostly due to the fact that nobody can agree on prices, and because of how little there is money in comparison to goods. Of course, you can divide one gold coin into ten silver coins to ease things up, but even by doing this, there is still too much of an imbalance. Besides, money has to be used for upgrading housing and buying spells from the library, which effectively means that the little money that is in circulation is best used for those purposes.

Near the neighborhood Rain lives in, about half a kilometer away from her own little corner of Grove, she finds a small, adorable little shop in the midst of giant bushes, next to a much larger apartment complex in a form of a tree, with a sign depicting a potion vial hanging from a little tree branch close to it. Thinking she could probably use some potions on her adventures, given that neither of her close friends can make them, she walks in. It is a really small but nice shop with only a few items on display on the five shelves, but what it lacks in goods it certainly gains in atmosphere. From a simple, yet colorful layout to a calming scent of lavender, it feels like a place she would just love to relax in. On a little armchair she sees a Nymph, with a red book in her hand, looking straight into Rain with her fascinated dark brown eyes. This one has a south-east Asian complexion with a characteristic dark hair and brown skin. She's fully human-like and on the first glance - in eyes of Rain at least - very adorable.

"Hello there", she says in a calm and collected manner, closing her book.

Rain walks up to her and offers this Nymph her hand. "Hi. Let's be friends."

Nymphs stands up, shakes Rain's hand, and with a wide arced smile says: "Okay!"

"Wow, that was easy."

"Yeah, it was the easiest friend I've ever made!" Nymph says and giggles softly, in a very feminine manner. "I like you already. What's your name?"

"It's Rain."

"I'm Lemon! So nice to meet you!"

Rain looks around the shop. "Is this your shop?"

"Yes, it is indeed!"

"It's pretty cute."

"Thank you! You're my sixth ever customer! I wanted to set up a shop to operate while taking breaks, so I can contribute to the community better."

"That's pretty nice of you", Rain compliments. "Are you an alchemist?"

Lemon nods. "How about you?"

"I'm an enchanter. Just a beginner though."

"I heard enchanters are pretty rare at the moment", Lemon says surprised.

"Really? Good for me I guess."

"Yes, indeed! You'll be in high demand in the future! So, do you have business with me?"

Rain nods. "I got a bunch of stuff I don't need on my adventure with my friends, so I'm looking to trade."

"We can trade for sure. And since we're friends, I can also serve you as an alchemist and make potions out of ingredients you find!"

"That would be pretty cool actually", Rain says and walks to the counter together with Lemon. Rain starts going through her inventory to go through items she doesn't need, but only displays those Lemon could be interested in. While she does, she notices the curious gaze of Lemon, who has taken a deep interest in her for some reason. Lemon is just a little bit taller than Rain, by maybe one or two centimeters. She's wearing very modest and girly, loose and comfortable creamy white top, and she is wearing a bright, multicolor pearl necklace. She has opted to wear loose and easy-to-move-in shorts as opposed to a much more popular skirt, and they are black in color. Rain, who is not used to such a curious gaze, finds herself blushing, and also hoping Lemon wouldn't notice her nervousness. "This should be all", Rain says, finally presenting her items to Lemon fully.

"That's a big haul indeed! I can make you some stamina and mana potions with these four items at least. Not sure about the others."

"That could be helpful. Do you take a cut?"

"No, no, there's no need for that."

Rain tilts her head. "I would feel bad."

Lemon, with thin eyes, rubs her fingertips together softly and says: "Friends do favors for each other's, so it's only fair that I do one for you."

"I guess I have to think of a way to give you a favor back", Rain says, cracking a rare smile.

"I'll be your alchemist. You can be my enchanter", Lemon suggests.

"That works", Rain says nodding. "I can even enchant some gear you have to offer so you can get a better deal from them. I see you already have two pieces at display."

"Speaking of gear, what's up with these panties?" Lemon asks and picks them up with one finger. Rain immediately remembers the cursed panties she looted. She wasn't supposed to display them for Lemon to see, and now she finds herself a little embarrassed. "Oh, they're cursed? What's up with that?" Lemon seems to find humor in them, which is a relief for Rain.

"Yeah, they're weird… I wasn't supposed to show them off…"

"Why would there be a need to mask the scent of a female though?" Lemon asks, perplexed, with a finger pressed against her lips. "I don't get it…"

"Wait…" Rain realizes something crucial. Lemon doesn't seem to know about the true nature of the game yet. "Have you not been to city today?"

Lemon shakes her head. "I have been working to set up my shop."

"I… I really think you should go hear the news for yourself…" Rain says.

"Is it important?"

Rain nods. "Super important."

"Can you tell me now?"

"Apparently…" Rain starts but stops immediately. She is not even sure how to put it into words. "Long story short, there are some enemies which lust after Nymphs sexually. This game is a very perverted one."

Lemon's smile has disappeared. "Really…?" she asks, quietly, almost whispering. "That's a lot to wrap your head around… Thank you for telling me…" Rain realizes that Lemon is trying to smile, but she can tell that it's a fake smile. She begins to separate the ingredients she needs for potions from rest of items. "You can take the rest of your items away. Take five potions of each type from my shelves. I'll restock later."

Rain nods. "Cheers, Lemon. But are you okay? Having heard that."

"I… I don't know…" Lemon admits and stops all movement. "But I don't want to dwell on negative things. I'll think about it and what it means to me at my own time."

Rain nods slowly. "If you say so."

"Oh, about those panties by the way… Do you need them?" Rain is not sure but ends up shaking her head anyway. "Can I have them? If there are enemies that can sense us Nymphs, maybe masking my scent would be a good idea considering that I'm a stealth ranger…"

"If that's true, these must be much more useful to you than me or any member of my group."

"Thank you, Rain. Are you interested in taking gear from me? There's a ring that's useless for me, if you want that."

Rain takes a look at the ring, which boosts stamina regeneration by a little bit. "That's perfect for a fighter like myself."

"Great! It's a fair trade then!"

"I should probably be on my way then", Rain says, and turns her body towards the front door. "You motivated me to train my enchanting as well."

"Wait a minute…" Lemon says and walks next to Rain. "Where do you live?"

"Eh…?"

"Mark the map for me", Lemon asks, grabbing Rain's hand, holding it tightly and lovingly. "I'll be sure to visit you if you happen to be home, since we're friends and all. I want to know you better."

Rain nods, but there's a problem. "How though?"

"Oh, didn't you know?" Lemon asks and opens up her user interface while still holding Rain's hand. "If we're in direct skin to skin contact with each other we can share the user interface." It's true. The user interface of a Nymph appears invisible to everyone else except the user herself, but Rain can see the map of Lemon, so what she taught her must be true. Rain knows how to mark a map, so she taps her finger at the location of her house. "That's close! We're basically neighbors!"

"I'll be sure to visit you too", Rain promises. "By the way, who do you usually adventure with?"

"I have just tagged along with random people. I started playing this game alone, so I have no close friends of my own yet."

"I hope you can join me and my pals as well."

"I hope so too!"

"By the way, do you know a Nymph called Tiara?"

Lemon shakes her head. "Doesn't ring a bell. Why?"

"Oh, I'm on a quest to make a lot of friends. I wanted to make her my friend too."

"Oh my, you sure want a lot of friends!" Lemon says and giggles. "I hope you can become friends with her too!"

Rain laughs. "I'll be on my way now."

"I'll see you again soon", Lemon says, letting go of Rain and waving to her. "And thank you for becoming my friend!"

…

It has been two days since. In the end, Rain never found Tiara again, but that's not important anymore, or for time being. They're not going to come by each other for a while for reasons that will remain unexplained.

The break has concluded, with Angel finally being willing and able to return to the front lines. In the end, break was really what she needed, as immediately after learning of the news she wasn't in the mental state to continue. Looking back, taking a break was the right thing to do, not only for her, but also for Rain, who initially resisted the idea of taking breaks and taking it easy. Wendy, who was kind of caught in the middle of two extremes, also needed a break.

Having reconciled, Rain and Angel apologize to each other properly for fighting and for yelling at each other. They're ready to face the unknown together, push forward and try to uncover more secrets about Phantasm, and possibly even on how to escape it. They find themselves ready, but with Wendy still sleeping, they climb all the way to top floor.

"It's unusual for Wendy to be the last one up", Angel says.

Rain is gazing at the view from the highest floor. "She sure has a nice view from here. It must be nice to just jump down and use your wings to land."

"I haven't even learned how to summon wings yet, and she can fly effortlessly."

"Yeah, I'm really jealous", Rain says and decides to knock on a door. "Get out, Wendy! We're going on an adventure!" There is no reply.

"Should I open the door?" Angel asks.

This time, there is a reply. "N-no, don't come in! I'm almost ready! Just wait a little bit!"

Rain and Angel look at each other, both shrugging. And finally, after a wait of roughly two minutes, Wendy finally bursts out from her little apartment. Both Rain and Angel gaze at her suspiciously, and Wendy lowers her eyebrows, irritated. "What are you looking at…"

"What were you doing?" Rain asks.

"I was just getting up…"

"Why did you tell us not to enter yet?"

"B-because I sleep naked!" Wendy yells, blushing in rage. "Nothing weird about that, okay!? I can't sleep with clothes on!"

"Why are you getting embarrassed over something like that?" Angel asks and laughs. "I sleep with nothing but panties myself."

"I've got pajamas", Rain says.

"Really? You!?" Wendy asks and immediately starts laughing.

Rain nods, with a serious expression. "They're pink and have a cute bunnies printed on them."

"Oh my gosh, this is hilarious!" Wendy yells laughing. "What kind of adult wears pajamas!? You're such a weirdo!"

"I'm a little girl, not an adult", Rain remarks. "And stop trying to shame me for being a pure maiden."

"There's nothing pure about you", Angel says, jokingly, giggling herself. "You're a self-admitted lolicon."

"Yeah, but the girls I like are all two-dimensional. I'm a real little girl, and therefore not for lewding purposes."

"Whatever", Wendy says and starts to calm down. "Let's go already."

"I got my friend to make potions for us", Rain says and offers her mana potions to Angel. "Here you go. I'll hold on to stamina potions."

"Ah, thanks."

"Do you have nothing for me?" Wendy asks.

"No. You've been rude and naughty and have to repent for your sins."

Wendy laughs softly. "Come on, Rain…"

The Second Expedition, the One that Went Slightly Wrong

Excerpt from the Gamer's Logbook; "Exploring the Mechanics of Nymphsaga", entry number ???, "On Enemy Ranks."

The enemies in Nymphsaga do not have any levels attached to them. They have a set number of stats, which vary both from zone to zone, as well as from enemy to enemy. This doesn't mean that the enemies can't be categorized in ranks, however.

Every foe has a rank. Normal enemies go from A to F, with F being the weakest, and A being the strongest. To get a general feel of the difficulty, rank F enemies are typically one-shot kills, which is why it is not uncommon for such enemies to come in groups for increased difficulty. Ranks C, D and E usually take some heavy lifting and require Nymph to be careful not to mess up but are generally very much soloable for anyone. A and B rank enemies will feel strong to anyone who comes across one for the first time and can be hard for inexperienced players to defeat effortlessly, but they are not quite elite yet. Elites are ranked with an S and are typically twice as powerful as a normal A rank enemy would be, making them truly formidable foes. There are three ranks of elite, with the level two and three just having two or three S letters in them. Then, there are also bosses, which are the most difficult of all the enemies, ranked by an X. A boss rated with one X is designed for a group of five, a boss rated XX for a group of ten, and XXX, the ultimate challenge in Nymphsaga, is for a group of twenty and upwards.

This is a very simple mechanic which is vital for every Nymph to learn. Knowing the strength of the enemy before the fight starts is very important, as it can help Nymphs pick up the right strategies from the start, and in some cases even avoid fights completely.

…

The expedition of Rain, Wendy and Angel to the depths of the forest continues from where their last one left off. They find themselves acting very cautious because considering what they had learned, they think it can never hurt being too careful. They do not want to get raped, especially because of their own carelessness. As their first great challenge, they come across a demon similar to the one they killed at the end of their last adventure, but this time, they have the upper hand and manage to surprise it. They kill it without even breaking a sweat this time, which is a massive boost of morale for them.

Past the stream in the yet unknown parts of the forest, it continues to get thicker and darker. There is an ominous hue in the color palette all around them, which is telling them that maybe they shouldn't venture so deep into the forest after all.

"This is a bad idea…" Angel thinks out loud. Defenses up, with serious eyes, she keeps looking all around the forest as if expecting to be attacked at any moment.

"Where are we anyway?" Rain wonders.

Wendy opens up her map, only to see the compass broken. Alarmed, she begins to mumble without saying anything comprehensible. Rain grabs her arm to see the map herself, a move that surprises Wendy for a second before she remembers that that's how the map can be shared. "Well, the map works, but I'm not so sure about the directions anymore… I'm pretty sure that the map has also rotated, but I'm not sure how much and to which direction. Zooming out doesn't work either, since it just breaks the map."

"I vote we rely on our senses and just turn back", Angel says.

Both Rain and Wendy answer one after another, and agree to go back and look for safer place to train in. They have a pretty good idea of where they came from and go to that general direction. A while later, however, they realize can't find the safer part of the forest. Every part looks like the same, so they can't even tell if they're going the right direction or not, but they sure know that they have searched for an exit way longer than they did walk in the forest.

"I think we're lost", Wendy admits and looks at her friends with regret. "Sorry, I'm supposed to be the navigator here, being scout and all…"

Rain tries to comfort Wendy with a kind tap to her back, and nods at her. "Just keep doing your best."

"I'm pretty sure we haven't been here yet", Angel remarks and points at the direction of a large oak. "I don't remember that tree."

Neither do Rain or Wendy. It is a thick oak, pitch black in color. It is very different from the other trees in the area. It seems that it has grown partially into a huge boulder, under which Wendy spots a hidden trove of some sorts. As she walks at the direction of it, she hears weird squishy noises coming from above. When she raises her eyes to the branches above, it's already too late to act. Before she can even aim her guns upward, she feels a wet block of green slime fall on her face. And it is very heavy. It's so heavy in fact that Wendy finds herself falling down, with her butt hitting against the squishy moss underneath. Slime doesn't stick to her hair, but it falls all over her like a net set up as a trap, entangling around her body, almost as if it were alive. "What the fuck is this thing!?"

Rain takes her sword, but soon realizes she can't just charge in and hit the slime, as she would surely hit Wendy. This is an enemy she can't defend Wendy against. Angel finds herself panicking, trying to find out if there are more of these slimes.

Luckily, for everyone else except Wendy, the slime on her is the only one on sight. As she wonders if it really is alive or not, it reveals itself to be very much alive. It presses into her body, trying to restrain her, and tries to slide its cold surface under her shirt with a thin, slow moving layer. She drops her weapons and tries to grab into it, but her fingers just sink into it, with the slime sticking onto her fingers, and even repairing itself after being damaged. Despite not being strong at all, it's almost impossible to defend against once it has gotten its prey. "It's getting under my clothes! Help me for crying out loud!"

Rain turns towards Angel. "Try a holy spell! It's our only option!"

Angel realizes this. Holy spells do, after all, work on many enemies. They do not work on mammals such as wolves, or native "beastkin" humanoids like goblins, but they have worked on everything else so far with varying success. As she casts her holy spell and aims it at the slime, the slime literally explodes into small green chunks, getting destroyed with a single spell. The slime instantly begins to liquidity and evaporate like boiling water turning into vapor, and this bubbly liquid seems to have some nasty, unintended consequences for Wendy. She takes one look at her shirt, which is not only ruined, but melting in parts. Destroyed completely, the shards of cloth that are left fall to the ground, leaving her shirtless. She automatically covers her bare, flat chest and turns her back at her friends.

"My shirt! It left me topless!"

"O-oh, shit…" Rain begins to run through her inventory. She has a lot of spare clothes, but she - like both of her friends - left them at home because she thought it wouldn't be needed.

"And I have no spare!" Wendy complains.

"Yeah, me neither…" Angel says.

Rain feels something running up her leg and looks down. Another slime has popped out of somewhere. No, a lot of them have, and the three Nymphs are surrounded. "Guys, there are more of them!"

As soon as Wendy realizes this, she picks a target and starts shooting it rapidly, emptying her entire clip on it. Slime appears undamaged by her bullets. She inspects it and realizes something horrible. This rank F slime, weakest of all the enemies in the area, has so little durability that it will literally shatter from any attack, but it is immune to physical damage.

At the same time this is going on, Rain kicks at the slime at her foot, but her foot just ends up sinking into it, which in turn causes her to slip magnificently as she makes the mistake of putting some weight her leg. For her, the situation is instantly worse than it was for Wendy because of the simple fact that she's wearing a miniskirt. Her butt immediately slams against the physically immune slime, and she continues to slide, falling on her back.

"Rain, they're immune to our attacks!"

"Say that sooner next time!" Rain shouts as she feels wet, slimy surface of the little green monster press against her pussy through her panties. She finds herself panicking and closes her legs with force, to absolutely no success. Slime contracts a little bit, but she can't squeeze her legs together, much less get it away from her groin. And then there is another slime taking the control of her upper body, restricting her movements completely and preventing her from doing anything other than flailing her legs in air. From the angle she is in, she can't raise her body up because of the heavy weights put on her body. A strange and powerful, yet unknown sensation overtakes her as the slime rubs against her private parts, looking for a way in. Or is it even doing that? It's trying to melt her panties to get a better feel, that's for sure. It's rubbing her, causing her body to convulse and bend involuntarily as her most sensitive part is being teased. Her reactions are amazing, and her shaky voice is forced to escape her mouth in form of desperate moans. It presses into her now exposed clit and hardens around it, flicking it softly, sending shockwaves all around Rain's body. Just like that, she's starting to get wetter, which is something she has not experienced yet, as she has not tried masturbating yet.

Meanwhile Wendy, shaking and panicking, starts loading poison bullets into her gun, which have to be loaded one by one. Gun also has to be reloaded immediately after one shot, making her only means of dealing damage to slimes ineffective. Wendy tries her luck at one approaching slime and sees it explode as the bullet runs through its weak body. She took too much time though, and there are already three new slimes coming at her from behind her back, and from the sides. Still sitting on her butt, she can't even rush to her feet before one of them latches itself into her back. "There's so many of them!" she screams as she feels one getting down her pants, into her butt crack. "It's going to rape me!"

The cry of help wakes up Angel, who is only one who is effective against these slimes. In fact, she's extremely effective against them. Her both spells are just as cheap, but she doesn't have enough mana to kill them all. She's already dry, with five slimes left to go, two of which are trying to rape Rain and three of which are trying to rape Wendy. "I think I might be out of mana…" she says with sweat running down her face.

"Are you kidding me!?" Wendy shouts. The slime presses against her butthole like a wet finger, softly pushing against her opening. "It's going into my ass!"

"Bear with it! I-it's going to regenerate! I'll save you both then!"

"Angel, I gave you those potions!" Rain yells. She feels the slime hardening as it prepares for a wet insertion, as it's constantly teasing her clitoris. "Just kill them! I don't care if my clothes get ruined! I don't want to be raped like this!"

Angel, who had forgotten the mana potions Rain gave her, picks up one from her inventory and drinks it up. In an instant, it locks her mana regeneration for a minute with the benefit of immediately regaining a minute worth of mana, which in this case is almost full, and just enough for her to save both of her friends from being penetrated. Both of them are left exhausted and more importantly, stark naked. Angel remains unscratched, even from the chunks of slime that flew past her.

"Please tell me that was last of them…" Rain says and gets to her feet, hands covering her vagina, which feels really sensitive, as if it was still being teased.

"Better be, because I'm out of weapons", Angel says. And just as she says this, she feels the final wrath of the slime, which jumps at her back, wrapping around her torso from behind, forcing her to let out a scream. Wendy shoots it with her poison bullet and finishes up the last piece of slime. Angel looks down at her body and sees her dress evaporating, left almost naked. She still has her panties and shoes, which is more than Rain and Wendy has. She falls to her knees on the verge of crying. "Oh, no… They got me too…"

"Well…" Wendy begins, with an irritated smile, and eyebrow twitching, and hands covering her lower half. "We're all basically naked now…"

"Shit, now I really want to get out of here", Rain says softly with a bright blush on her cheeks.

"They were slimes for fucks sake!" Wendy yells. "Slimes! The weakest of all the monsters, and they almost raped us!"

"Thank God for our guardian angel", Rain says jokingly and gives Angel a thumbs up.

"You're welcome…" Angel says and sighs deeply. "Did they get either one of you?"

"I think my hymen is still intact…" Rain says softly, almost whispering. "But otherwise, I feel violated…"

"Yeah, same for me. My ass is fine…" Wendy says and sighs, as she gets finally up. Angel and Rain both take a look at her, and Wendy looks back. "Don't stare…"

"Sorry…" Angel immediately diverts her gaze. Rain's stare, however, is not so relenting.

"I said don't stare", Wendy repeats, covering up her nipples and twisting her body to the side so Rain can't see between her legs.

"You're staring at me as well", Rain says, with her chest bare unprotected by her own arms.

"Well it's kind of hard to not look when I'm talking to you…" Wendy says, blushing.

Rain smirks and answers: "Right back at you."

"Let's get out of here…" Angel says.

"Before we go, I want to check what's underneath that tree", Wendy says and heads towards the hidden trove she spotted. Angel and Rain also get towards it. Wendy begins to dig through the bushes and finds a loot chest, which is quite large actually. She suddenly feels her friends getting down on their knees besides her, which causes her to freeze in panic. "D-don't get so close to me while I'm naked! It's super uncomfortable."

"Shut up, and check out the loot", Rain says with a bright, overjoyed yet smileless expression on her face. Angel and Wendy can see it as well. There are a grand total of five pieces of gear, and they're not even typical pieces of gear. All of the items they have come across have had a white name, except for gold coins, but these items have a green name, so they logically speaking must be better. "Holy smokes, is that a freaking sword!?" As soon as the Rain clicks at it, the loot disappears from right under their noses. Rain can tell that no-one else touched it, so there's something else going on. Angel and Wendy don't realize this, as they though Rain took the loot, but Rain immediately realizes that they have stepped into a trap. Before she can open her mouth, the ground collapses from underneath her and her friends, causing all three to fall into the depths of the hole below.

What awaits them is not ground, nor is it a soft landing. There is no immediate danger or injuries, as they're surrounded by water. They fell into an underground pond, which is deep enough for them to not be able to reach to the depths. They all can swim, luckily, so they do swim to the shore.

"Just when I thought things couldn't get worse…" Wendy says and sits down at the shore. Rain and Angel get up to a standing position.

"Well, I guess there are perks to being naked", Rain says and looks at her ruined, wet hair. "Nothing is worse than wet clothes."

"There's something in the water", Angel warns and grabs Wendy's arm, dragging her a little. Wendy realizes this too and gets to her feet. All three take few steps out of the lake only to see countless tentacles raise from the dark depths of the pond. They're trying to reach and grab into the feet of the three girls, but they can't reach them anymore.

Wendy opens up her inventory to resummons her pistols, which are always automatically teleported back to her inventory when she loses them or gets disarmed. This is a mechanic to protect at least weapons and jewelry of the Nymphs, which are not expendable in the way that clothes are. Using her pistol, she takes the aim at the tentacle monster only to find out that the monster in front of them is actually a boss fight designed for at least five Nymphs. It is also a fight that they can avoid, so Wendy proposes that they do. "Let's not challenge this guy. Like, never ever."

"Yeah, no objections here", Angel says and nods. "I don't feel like getting raped by tentacles…"

"Can we avoid it though?" Rain asks and looks around her. The cave system they are in is a vast one, with roads leading to multiple directions. It is well-lit and overall feels silent. "Yeah, I think we can."

Wendy opens up her map only to find out that it has completely stopped working underground. "Map's fucked. We have to pick blindly."

"Shh, be quiet…" Angel says and listens carefully, as do both of her friends. They can tell that there is water besides just the pond. In fact, there is running water. "Do you think we could maybe be able to follow that lead?"

"It's our best bet yet", Wendy says. "But the question is, upstream or downstream?"

"I'd say upstream", Rain says, "since we're underground and the area feels pretty flat."

"Yeah, I agree", Angel says. "Let's not waste any time."

…

Three Nymphs quickly find a stream running through the depths of this cave system. It is running through a tunnel which is leading upwards. It is still impossible to tell where this road leads, but at least it will lead them out of the tunnel back to the surface, which is all they're asking.

Their behavior has changed. All of them are meek, embarrassed and shy about everything they say and do. None of them dare to look at each other for too long periods of time, especially not while talking to each other. The only saving grace in this situation for them is the fact that nobody is left alone feeling ashamed naked. They're all in the same boat. While they have made a silent agreement not to stare, they can't help but to look. They try to do it secretly without others noticing, but none of them are doing a good job at it.

Angel, especially, is finding herself to be a little irritated, mostly because of the fact that she's the odd one out in a company of two completely immature looking brats. While a kid herself, she at very least is somewhat mature with her budding breasts, and she has a constant, unshakeable feeling that her friends just can't help but to look at her "tits", as pathetic as they are. "Guys… I know you're both guys in real life, but please don't stare so much…"

"You stare as well", Wendy remarks, a little offended. "And it's not like I'm aroused by you or anything. I'm not into little kids."

"Then why are you constantly staring at MY breasts and not Rain's?"

"You don't even have breasts!"

"Yes, I do!"

Rain lets out a burst of laughter but tries to hide it by looking away.

"What are you laughing at!?" both Angel and Wendy shout.

"For two straight dudes who like big bouncy tits you sure are getting flustered by loli tits", Rain says, unable to resist her smile.

"Speaking of which, you're checking me out too!" Angel blames and points her finger at Rain, who falls silent and unresponsive.

"I don't even mind if you look at me, because there's nothing to look at", Wendy says. "But stop trying to act like you're somehow holier than us."

Angel groans. "I'm sorry, okay? I'm just upset we have to walk like this!"

"Look ahead", Rain says, stopping and pointing at something in front of them. It's a giant spider web blocking the way. In fact, there are a lot of web ahead, along with some web covered white eggs attached to them. All three end up walking closer to the web, observing it closely.

"Do you think you can cut it?" Wendy asks.

"Let's try." With that, Rain summons her sword and takes one good swing at the web, cutting it effortlessly. Her sword strike is not very calculated and ends up cutting one of the eggs in half. What's inside surprises her, and both of her friends as well. It explodes into white, thick, gooey slime, which is now all over the place, also dripping down their bodies. First, Rain looks at herself, and the first word that comes to her mind is "bukkake". This white slime REALLY resembles semen, in more ways than just one. It looks like it, it feels and behaves like it, and it even smells like it.

"Did you really have to hit that egg?" Wendy asks with murderous eyes.

Angel responds with even more outrage, mostly because of this fake semen has the exact same effect on clothing that the slimes outside had. She, like both of her friends, is finally left completely naked, with not even a single sock left. She can't do anything other than weep and fall to her knees. "I'm so done with this torture! It's like everything in this place is fucking perverted!"

"At least there's water", Rain says. "Let's wash ourselves and continue."

They do just that. Luckily, the fake semen seems to dissolve well in water, which is uncharacteristic for human semen they're all very much used to. They also try to splash water on the web ahead, but it doesn't seem to have an effect. Now, squeaky clean, they are ready to move on.

"Why did we wash up when we're probably going to just get covered in sperm anyway…?" Angel suddenly asks.

"Rain is just going to have to avoid eggs", Wendy says and shrugs.

"Actually, it's your turn to be useful, Wendy", Rain says. "Shoot at the eggs."

"Are you crazy!? Why!?"

"They dissolved Angel's clothes, so I thought they could also dissolve web."

Wendy realizes this, and nods. "Let's get back", she suggests. And then, from a safe distance of about five meters, she shoots the bullet at the egg, which explodes with a large, yet contained radius. Rain's guess turns out to be correct, and Wendy's pistol turns out to be the most effective means of getting rid of web, provided there's eggs in them. For webs that can't be destroyed like that, Rain uses her sword.

"By the way, what could even be behind these kinds of webs?" Angel wonders.

Rain takes one long look at Angel and says: "A spider, duh."

"A freaking huge spider at that", Wendy adds.

"I hate spiders…" Angel admits. "I never liked them in Mormia either. They creep me out big time."

"Yeah, me too", Rain says.

"I kinda like spiders", Wendy interjects. "They're cute."

"How the hell are spiders cute?" Angel asks. "They're super creepy."

"I happen to like creepy things."

"I don't want to bring out uncomfortable subjects", Rain says, "But how do spiders fuck anyway?"

"Yeah, you really DID have to go there…" Angel says with a disgusted look. "I don't even want to think about it."

"I don't think they fuck, per se", Wendy says, thinking about the question. "I think they lay eggs or something…" Then, she turns green. "Wait, that shit's even worse than being cummed inside…"

Rain, too, finds herself slightly disgusted. "Sorry I brought this up…"

"You better be", Angel says and sighs. "I'm going to have nightmares from this place…"

…

Moving slowly through the web filled corridor, Nymphs see light ahead of them. Having avoided enemies completely, their luck seems to be turning around for time being. If the spring is the same one that they saw outside, they have a direct route out of the forest, as they know the area near the spring and can actually navigate using a working map.

Ahead of them, however, is not outside. They're still in the cave, finding themselves at a bottom of a pit. Looking up, they can see a roof of spider webs, but ahead of it they can see trees and feel the sunlight coming through. The spring still runs through the cave, with the tunnel continuing to move upward, presumably out from the cave. The room they find themselves in, however, is a weird one. There are more eggs in the walls, some of them huge. There are a lot of web on the walls as well, and some small tunnels and holes in the walls. There is even a spider, upon inspection revealed to be rank F, about the size of a cat.

"It's a shame to kill it", Wendy says and points her gun at it before the spider can even realize it's being targeted.

"Wait", Rain says and lays her hand on Wendy's pistol. "It could be a trap, like the chest was."

Angel nods. "What if there are more of them and they just get angrier?"

Wendy points her weapon towards the egg covering the web covering the exit instead. "In that case, let's get out of here quickly." Then, she shoots, and the egg explodes. The spider on the wall immediately realizes something is up, and starts to charge Wendy. This time, she kills the spider without hesitation, with one precise shot. "Okay, this time I had no choice."

"You should've let me cut the web…" Rain says.

"Thanks, captain hindsight", Wendy says with a sarcastic tone.

Angel feels something fall on her back from behind, and latch onto her. Immediately feeling the hairy, creeping legs of a spider, she lets out a panic-infused scream. More spiders are coming, and the situation they find themselves in is almost the same as outside. Surrounded by a dozen weak enemies, they have to defend themselves. This time, luckily, they all can fight. Because of this, they eliminate the enemies quickly. Rain rushes to the exit and begins to slash through it. This web is way thicker and stickier though, and it's not that easy to get through it. She turns towards her friends. "Let's go back for time being! I can't get through easily!"

Above the exit to the deeper reaches of the cave lies a spider way larger and meaner than the smaller ones. This one is not just a cat-sized monster. This is one is so big that each one of its eight legs alone is longer than a Nymph. It looks like an absolute tank, and it has its aim set on Angel. Like a spitfire, it shoots out web, which immediately latches into the body of Angel, who couldn't dodge it properly, and then, it starts backpedaling up towards the roof. Rain rushes to the help of her friend and manages to cut the web, but Angel is still yet immobilized by it.

"How can we get rid of this!?" Rain asks panicking, as she looks at Angel. She realizes the eggs and the semen-like substance inside. It can dissolve the web, but how can they get it to Angel? No, that's not even their biggest problem. There are more little spiders on the way, and big spider has not given up yet. It shoots its web, and Rain manages to read the incoming shot. Like the strikes of the demon they defeated earlier, it's very easy to predict. While incredibly fast, it's actually easy to dodge, as the web will shoot at the exact place the spiders aims it at from the start. They realize this too late, as Angel was trying to dodge at the last second, and now she's out of commission. Back to the present, Rain moves out of the way, and the web latches onto Angel, who now gets dragged towards the roof. No longer able to cut the web, Rain remembers her wings. She has tried so hard to summon them, but she just can't muster up the ability to do so. If she could fly, she could save Angel, or at least prolong the inevitable. Grounded, she can't do anything. Wendy can fly, but she can't cut the web, so she's unable to save Angel as well. Little spiders are on the way, and she has to concentrate on them. Dodging them, she keeps rolling around and strikes one down. She's in the aim of one of these creatures and receives a shot against her left shoulder. Little spiders shoot semen instead of web, which is a relief for Rain. Anything is better than getting webbed, as it seems to be the one thing that will immobilize her.

"We'll get you down!" Wendy yells, as the little spiders are all defeated once again. "Don't worry!"

"Can you fly?" Rain asks. "You could save Angel."

"I can just shoot the eggs up there."

"How about you shoot this fucking spider instead!?" Angel yells. What happened to her immediately after being dragged up, she was left hanging by the giant spider. The web is like a chain, and she can't do anything but struggle. Her weight and her movements, however will never get her free, and every move she makes just makes it harder to move more.

"I'm not sure, but this one feels like a boss fight to me", Wendy says. She is very familiar with tactics of different kinds of bosses in Mormia, so she can tell that this one has an attack pattern and a set of rules attached to it as well. With these rules, they can theoretically defeat it even by themselves, should they come up with effective tactics. "It's an SS elite, so it should be doable for two of us, provided we are super careful."

"Little spiders seem to come in waves", Rain points out. "And the only mechanic we have to worry from the boss is its web. If it gets us all, we're done."

Wendy nods. "Give me some stamina potions, since we can't rely on Angel."

Rain throws two at Wendy, who transfers them to her inventory immediately. Then come the web shots from the boss, one at Rain, and one at Wendy. They both manage to dodge, quite effortlessly so. Then, smaller eight-legged horrors arrive. "Don't worry about getting shot by them! It's just semen and can't hurt us!"

"Roger that!"

Rain and Wendy soon realize that there were less spiders than before. Why? They immediately realize why. They're after Angel too. Immobilized and webbed, laying hanging, she feels the small spiders dragging her upwards towards the bigger net. Helpless to do anything to defend herself, she watches in horror. She is being dragged through a large gap in a net towards the upper nets. She sees the other spider being shot and killed. It took some time, but Wendy managed to kill one. Luckily, her aiming is amazing, but not amazing enough to hit every time. Worried about the web attacks of the boss spider, she panics at the last second, missing the spider. Wendy manages to dodge the attack aimed at her, but the bullet grazes Angel's skin, causing damage to her stamina through friendly fire - a little piece of useful information they learn in the heat of the battle - and the bullet accidentally flies through an egg instead. This ends up actually setting Angel free from the hanging net, but she doesn't fall down. Instead, she falls back first into a net below. Unable to get up, she struggles uncomfortably, with the spider on top of her, praying on her body. In an attempt to save Angel, Wendy just ended up hastening up her rape.

Meanwhile, fourth wave of spiders appears downstairs. This is the biggest yet, but Rain and Wendy get through it with flying colors. Left panting heavily in exhaustion, they have to drink one stamina potion each in order to continue. Now, the fight takes a sudden turn. The giant spider comes down, and the phase two begins. Not knowing what to expect, two Nymphs left standing take defensive stances and do not even dare to think about attacking. The boss spider is at center of the room, and it's rotating towards Wendy. She shoots at its head, but it's immune to the attacks from the front. Just as Rain gets ready to attack from the behind, enemy charges towards Wendy like a freight train. Wendy was anticipating a web attack and dodges but ends up flying into the ground in surprise. For a moment, spider appears vulnerable, and begins to move. "Hug the walls so it charges against them!" Wendy suggests. "That way we also have more time to move."

Rain thought the same thing. They're both close to each other, at the other side of the room, waiting for the next charge. This time, the enemy attacks with a web instead. It gets Rain, who was waiting for the sign of the charge, completely forgetting about the web attack. She knows that Wendy can't cut the web, and her heart skips a beat in horror. Before the enemy can begin dragging her though, a sudden splash of goo startles her. It's the exploding semen-filled eggs on the walls. They set her free from the web as Wendy shot one of them. Rain finds herself horrified and hyperventilating and looks at Wendy with a relieved look on her face. She was sure, so sure that she was going to get caught. Brought back to the reality quicker than she can say "Cheers", the enemy charges. They have now learned the pattern and have to learn next how to capitalize on it.

At the same time, Angel is being abused by the same little rank F spider, the one that she can't do anything about. This little foe is the one that is going to take away her virginity. Or is it? It doesn't look like it's in a hurry to insert, but it loves to play with Angel. It keeps spitting and splashing goo at Angel to dissolve web bit by bit in order to get access to the sacred hole of Nymph. It's also using its front legs to move Angels legs through web, which it manages to do. Still stuck to the web, they keep opening, wide enough for spider to have its way doing whatever. Angel can't do anything but to watch her helpless body. She knows she can't be saved by her friends yet, so she just closes her eyes and bites her teeth. She feels something warm, wet and slimy push against her, rubbing and pressing against her slit, immediately sending shockwaves through her body. She, like Wendy, has tried masturbating so she knows this sensation, even though she didn't go all the way. Being touched by someone - or in this case something - feels much more vivid though. It's almost like everything she would feel being touched by her own fingers is magnified by three. It keeps pushing her, pressing into her and grinding her outsides. It's laced with slimy semen-like substance of this spider, and its affecting her, causing her body to respond with arousal. Moisture dwelling inside her is reaching to her lips, her clitoris keeps stiffening up, and her entrance keeps contracting and tightening involuntarily as she trembles in fear and weeps.

Spider crawls up, tightens its grip with all four of its front legs into Angels flat belly, and it pushes a thick, penis-like organ against Angel's little virgin hole. She cries out loud and shakes her head in disapproval, arcing her body and struggling with fervor, but the rapist is latched onto her, and thus follows her movements. And tied, she can't move her arms or legs. With all of its force, enemy inserts its cock deep into the hole of a little girl with a soft, slimy clap. Invaded, deflowered and defiled, Angel feels it all. She can feel its movements and pulsating with her internal muscles, as well as the more sensitive outer muscles. It hurt only for a moment, and now it just pinches and tingles uncomfortably. It begins to move, starting out slow, with deep thrusts, holding it in place after each time it hits her cervix. They're short thrusts, and it never takes it out of her even half-way. It picks up the pace to move non-stop, with similar, yet faster and slightly more frequent thrusts. It presses harder, shaking, sinking its legs into the soft body of Angel.

She doesn't dare to look, but she feels her body moving slightly in rhythm. Every thrust makes her body move slightly and has an effect on her. Her thighs and butt visibly shake when the cock slams into her, while her exposed chest just feels it internally. Her little tits are like tiny puddings. They can't bounce, and they don't even seem like moving. All they can do is shake a little. Angel however feels it. Her nipples are also stiff from excitement. Her entire body is reacting to much of her discomfort. Horrifyingly enough, there is zero pain. It's all sexual pleasure. Only pain she feels is the one in her heart. But how far will her rapist take it before it stops? How long will it last before she is saved by her friends? Will her friends even succeed? She fears it will go all the way, and she knows that she will herself go all the way if the spider doesn't stop. Her wet pussy, while identical in size and appearance, is not like an ordinary vagina of the little girl, or at least so she feels. It is releasing such amazing surges of pleasure all over her body, way stronger than she could've even imagined. It's like her entire head is blanking because of the intense sexual pleasure. Her fingers made her feel like this, but her fingers were small, slow, very forgiving and predictable. This dick is nothing like it. It's big, fast, unforgiving and unpredictable, and it reaches deeper into her than her fingers ever could. Its grinding is driving her towards an orgasm hundred miles an hour, and the breaks are broken. She climaxes from a rape, from a weak monster, from a creature she hates. First it took her virginity, now it made her cum for the first time in her life, and it's not even done. It begins to pump semen into her womb. It's not the liquid she was expecting, but instead, it fills her with a thick, chunky slimy cum. She can tell even though she can't see any of it. This substance is thick like rice porridge, almost as if there is something mixed into it. She didn't remember her conversation with Rain and Wendy earlier, but they did say something about spiders laying eggs. Or is it? Is this spider a male or a female, or something else? The idea of male spider laying eggs doesn't sit right with her at very least.

It doesn't stop there. The spider continues to pump her with bestial vigor. Still hypersensitive from her first ever orgasm, she moans and tries to move. Not just move, but her legs are actually trying to open even more wide, something that the web won't allow her to do. 'What the hell is happening to me?' she wonders. 'It's like my body is okay with everything it does, even though my heart says it's horrible! How does that even work!? And it just came inside me too! Am I pregnant now!?'

Rain and Wendy have realized what is going on, but they have to focus on dodging and attacking with all they got for a few seconds. Upon inspection, Wendy finds out that their enemy is faltering, with only one third of its health left. Should this continue, they will surely defeat it, and save Angel, but it doesn't just simply continue. Third phase begins, and the duo of Nymphs has to deal with small spiders at the same time as the big one is charging at them and trying to restrain them, a challenge that is shaping up to be truly unforgiving. They can't just simply hit the boss while the small ones are attacking, and they can't just attack the small ones while the big one is charging in. They have to avoid both until they get the chance to kill the small ones, and then resume. This ends up being easy for Wendy, who can just run around and shoot while running, but in the case of Rain, her weapon swings cost stamina just as much as running does. Surely, she will regenerate fast, but not fast enough for her to be effective. She can't just simply stop, so she runs herself dry really quick. She downs her final potion. It's all or nothing now. They have to kill the enemy before more small spiders appear.

And then, things get even worse. In the process of finishing up the small spiders, Wendy ends up making a miscalculation, and doesn't manage to dodge the web. Spiders comes charging in at her, and pushes her back against the wall, locking her to the place. There is an egg next to her, but it is up to Rain to destroy it, or kill the spider. She has to make a choice. Will she prioritize saving Wendy and risk running out of stamina, or will she prioritize killing the boss? She has no time to think, and the giant spider launches its web at her. As she dodges by simply sidestepping, she prepares for a dodge. In this instant, as she gets ready to jump away, she feels like she can do much more than that. She can't just jump to the side. She can jump upwards, using her wings. In the heat of the battle she feels like she has complete control of all her magical energy, along with her source. It's almost as if something has awakened a dormant power inside her during this adventure, but what was it? She remembers reading in a lore page they found about source generation being linked to Nymph's sexuality, and the fact that it speeds up during heat. She's not in heat per se, but she did get teased by those slimes outside, which caused her to become wet for a moment. Was that the catalyst for her surge in source, the catalyst for her being able to control it enough to summon wings? She finally tries, and succeeds in summoning her magnificent crystal wings, bright red and yellow in color, engulfed in a pink smoke flickering like a starry sky. She takes flight as the enemy charges at her, but she can't control herself well or keep herself in air for long, so she has to act fast. Seeming almost like an accident, she rotates in air and performs a whirlwind-like spinning attack, which slices deep into the weak abdomen of the spider. It is left stunned by this powered-up strike. Rain lands, almost stumbling on her feet, and finds herself left panting heavily on ground, collecting her stamina as she can't recover it in any other way. She knows that should the spider recover first, or should small ones appear, she would be done for. None of that luckily happens. Spider is crippled, and there are no small spiders coming out either. Enough time had passed for it to happen though, so she figures out it was a one-time deal, a one final desperate attempt for the boss to defeat its enemies. Rain gets up and continues to walk around the spider's blind spot while it tries to get on its feet. She doesn't hesitate anymore, and goes in for a kill, with a final powered-up strike that executes the enemy.

"Did you just use your wings!?" Wendy asks, with an overjoyed expression. "Good job!"

"Oooooohhh!" Rain lets out a powerful, yet girly victory roar. "We did it!" She looks up to see her beloved friend in distress. She tries to muster up strength to fly, but it really was for one use only. She knows why. This place isn't rich in source like Grove is, so she had to rely on the little source she had to fly. She decides to rush to Wendy to get her out and does so with the help of the egg besides her.

Released, Wendy is quick to regain the control of her weapons and aims them up. "Wait… She's going to fall, isn't she…?"

Rain raises her arms up and makes a promise: "I'll catch her!"

"I think you'll get hurt in the process…" Wendy says with a skeptical tone.

"I'll take half of the damage!" Rain says and gets towards a central position of the pit. She raises her arms up and waits, as the Wendy begins to shoot down eggs one by one. With every destroyed egg, white goo falls down from the ceiling, almost like a semen rain. More importantly, the net falters and falls a little by little, until eventually, it collapses completely, with Angel falling down to Rains arms. She ends up collapsing and falling to her butt, but at least she has Angel in her arms. Wendy comes in for a kill and finishes up the spider tormenting Angel.

"Die, you bastard."

Angel continues to weep and mourn, even after getting released. She tries to move desperately, but the net is still on the way.

"You're safe now…" Rain says and embraces her friend from behind.

"Oh my god… Thank you…"

"Holy shit, things really can't go right for us today", Wendy says and sighs, extending her hand to Angel. "Can you stand…?" Trying to wipe off her tears, Angel shakes her head. "Rain… Help her up…"

"Yeah, but… I can't either… We literally can't get up…" Rain says with a serious, emotionless expression. "I'm kind of tangled in this net with her…"

"Oh, for fucks sake… And you just HAD to catch her…"

"Come on, Wendy… I just wanted to soften her fall and you know it…"

"I'll get you out…" Wendy begins to look for the way to do so. She can't rip the eggs from the net without risking getting caught in the process herself, but there is a lot of slime around. She makes her weapons disappear and sighs as she realizes she may have to get her hands dirty, literally. She falls to her knees and collects semen into her hands, with a disgusted look on her face, and she lays her hands on shoulders of Angel, who immediately lets out a surprised squeak. "Bear with it for a moment." Angel rapidly nods three times, as she looks closely at her naked friend, who is literally rubbing slime on her bare skin. Angel's hands are free, but that's not enough. Wendy next looks almost as if going for Angel's body, but she halts. She looks at Angel's naked body in front of her and she just can't let herself laying her hands on her ribs, waist or hips.

"Just do it already…" Angel says with an uncomfortable tone. "Nothing you do to me can be worse than what that bastard did to me…"

"I feel like such a pervert for doing this…" Wendy complains, but rubs Angel anyway. She starts by releasing her legs, and then, she moves onto her back. It allows her to rip Angel away from the web, one that Rain now finds herself alone in. Now, on her feet, her shaky legs, Angel leans forward against Wendy, and hugs her tight. This, of course, causes Wendy to freeze. She's being hugged by a naked little girl. No, it's not just that. This little girl is taller than her, after all. She's a little girl too. It's without a doubt a situation she finds extremely disturbing, but at the same time, she completely understands why Angel wanted to share a loving, intimate hug. She's still crying, and she's just so relieved to be safe, at the arms of her friend. Wendy hugs her back trying not to think about the fact that her breasts are pressing against her own.

Rain, who can't look away, just closes her eyes with a huge blush on her face. "Okay, get me up next…"

Angel turns around to race Rain. "I… I'll do it… You don't have to, Wendy…"

"Oh, my pleasure…" Wendy says and takes a breather. She sits down and sighs deeply.

This leaves Angel with naked Rain laying like a starfish underneath her. There's not much work to be done, but the web fell on Rain like a trapper's net. "I don't think I'm able to do this after all…"

"Well I hate to copy you so literally, but just do it already…"

Angel sighs and looks around to get a heap of white slime. She rubs them against Rain's arms to dissolve net, and moves immediately to Rain's armpits, a move that makes her twitch. "Please, Rain… Stay still…"

"But it tickles…!"

"I'm going to get your upper body up now…" Angel warns and moves her hands down Rain's slender figure. Her thumbs end up grazing her flat chest, something that makes her blush even more. She has barely recovered from what happened to her, and now she has to do something like this. She gets her work done, falls to a sitting down position and gives up. Rain, who manages to get up, works to get her own legs free.

"We're out… And hopefully safe…" Rain says.

"This stuff stinks literally like cum…" Wendy says with an annoyed expression. "And now this entire place reeks of it…"

"I feel like I'm going crazy just being here", Angel says and gets to her feet, surprisingly springy. "I'm going to wash myself and get the fuck back to Grove. I'm so done with this place."

"Me too…" Wendy says. She wants to ask Angel if she's feeling alright now, but she can tell that she's not. She's acting tough and like everything is okay, but she's still crying a little bit. She realizes that maybe Angel didn't just simply get raped, and simply endure up to five minutes of torment. Maybe something bad, connected to rape, happened while it all went done. 'Maybe it came inside her', Wendy realizes. She's afraid to ask, but she knows that it could be something they have to deal with later. They do not know what it means to be cummed inside for Nymph yet, but Wendy at very least fears that it leads to exactly what she thinks it does: pregnancy.

…

They looted the corpse to get the treasures from this elite, and they wash up quickly. Then, they sit down to relax for a bit to gather their energy. And speaking of treasure, they got absolutely nothing useful to them. There was a longbow, which had absolutely amazing stats, but since it wasn't useful for any of them, it ended up being just a bargaining tool for them in trade. Even the ingredients they looted were not useful for any of them.

"By the way, Rain", Wendy suddenly says. "You really learned how to fly."

"Oh, right… It must be linked to the fact that my body generated more source than normal when those slimes got us."

"Well, if that's true, I should be able to use my wings as well…" Angel says. She does not, however, show any interest in trying, as thinking about a surge in source immediately reminds her of what just happened.

A sudden realization hits Rain. Wendy could fly on the second day already. Why was that? Was there a sudden, abnormal rise in source for her caused by sexual excitement? She can't help but to smile and blush as she realizes that Wendy just couldn't help herself on the first night as a Nymph. Rain kind of wants to point it out, but she resists her urge to harass Wendy. For now, she keeps this information to herself.

About fifteen minutes later, they finally decided it's time to move out and leave this wretched place behind. What they find at the other end of the tunnel is something they couldn't be more excited about. It's safe and familiar looking misty forest. It really is the same spring running through the underground cave. Knowing which direction it is in, they head towards Grove. Pretty much gone through two of their worst battles so far, nothing they find can surprise or shock them anymore. Well, not as long as enemies are concerned at least.

Shouts echo in the forest. A loud voice of a Nymph in distress. Wanting to help this stranger out, they move in closer to see if there's anything they can do to help her. They find a lone little girl in a desperate situation, naked and being raped by a large, gray wolf. It moves with great vigor and the loud claps of meat pounding against meat can be heard from far away, combined with the occasional moans and desperate cries of this Nymph. Her curly hair is bright pink in color, and rather long, but this is the only physical feature they can distinguish from so far away. Without hesitation, they move in, spreading out. Wolves are quick, powerful and durable, and immune to holy damage. Beyond that, they don't have resistances, and are weak against status altering effects like stuns, traps and poisons. They're straightforward fighters that are easy to predict, but give very little room for preparation, making them a tough match against melee fighters. Against ranged Nymphs, they're weak though. Wendy taunts it with her crippling poison - an ability she hasn't had the chance of using during the fights the story has covered - which causes the wolf to abandon its victim and reassign its priorities towards its new opponents. Before it can even realize its being targeted by another Nymph, it gets hit with a sword strike, and dies a quick death. It was a very weak wolf.

This pink-haired stranger is left laying on her stomach, with her butt still up and semen dripping out from her hole. She can't move but realizes she has been saved. She collapses almost completely and simply says: "Thank you…"

Wendy gets in front of her and extends her hand to this stranger. "Can you stand?"

"My legs are an absolute mess…" girl says and tries to smile. "In any case, thank you again… I thought I was screwed for good…"

"Why are you even alone?" Angel asks with a judgmental tone.

"I wasn't alone… My party got attacked by goblins and we were separated…" the girl explains as she lays her butt down to sit up and get on her knees. "There were eight of them, or something ridiculous like that, and we were forced to scatter. I think they might've gotten some of us."

"Were they your friends?" Wendy asks with a worried tone.

Girl shakes her head. "I kind of just tagged along with them because they needed a caster… And yeah, I ran away, heading back towards Grove, when that wolf got me from behind."

"Luckily we're almost there", Wendy says and gets up. "You're safe with us."

"Thank you so much… My savior…" she says and giggles. "I'm Pink by the way." A fitting name for sure, almost comically so. Just like her absurdly long hair, her eyes are also the same color. At roughly 120 centimeters, she is really small, even compared to Wendy, who is the smallest of our three heroines. Despite being very girly and feminine, she also looks very immature from the neck down as well, with a perfectly flat chest, no wide hips or a plumpy butt to boast about. One by one, all three introduce themselves to Pink, who takes great curiosity in the appearance of her saviors. "By the way, what happened to you? You're all naked."

"Long story short, lots of slime", Rain explains. "And spiders."

"You must've gotten pretty deep then", Pink says with a surprised expression. "I haven't seen any slimes or spiders yet."

"Yeah, we got lost", Rain says shrugging.

"Yeah, my bad. I was doing a lousy job as a scout and underestimated the area", Wendy says and sighs.

"The part where we dropped into a trap was technically my bad", Rain points out.

"Well, it was just a matter of time until I would've tried picking something up from that chest", Angel admits.

"In any case, we should probably get on a move", Wendy says. "I, at very least, am tired of this perverted forest."

"I think I can walk…" Pink says and struggles to get to her feet. Standing on shaky legs, she lets out an uncomfortable moan and sighs. "Ah, I feel so weak… It raped me so hard…"

"Speaking of which, have you recovered properly?" Wendy asks and turns towards Angel.

"Physically yes, but my heart feels like a mess…"

"It's not a long way until we get home, so try to hold out until then", Rain says and taps Pink on a shoulder.

"I feel like I'm asking too much, but… Can you actually support me for a while…?" Rain recoils and blushes, but otherwise, her expression doesn't change. This little girl, this absolutely tiny and immature child is essentially asking Rain to give her a shoulder to lean on. While Rain has some serious pedophilic tendencies she can't shake off, she can't bring herself to do it, especially in front of her friends. A part of her wants to, and another small part of her feels like she probably should, but she's too embarrassed to lay her hands on such a small child. Pink finally realizes this as well, and she honestly feels like asking for such intimacy from a stranger is probably too much, so she blushes too and laughs. "Yeah, that's a bust…"

"Sorry, I feel like it's too much…" Rain admits. "I want to help, but…"

Pink shakes her head and sympathizes with Rain. "It's okay. I completely understand. I can walk by my own feet, although slowly."

Wasting no more time, the four Nymphs head home. They are dying to get to the safety of Grove, under the protective barrier which no enemy can penetrate to assault them again.

Recess III

Excerpt from the Gamer's Logbook; "Exploring the Mechanics of Nymphsaga", entry number ???, "On Status Altering Effects."

Players are connected to the world around them on both a physical and a psychological way, and sometimes the way the world affects them manifests in form of status altering effects. They are effects can have either a negative or a positive impact on Nymph's body and can last anywhere from few seconds to several weeks. There are many sources for these effects which, for example, include "buffs" cast by a friendly player and "debuffs" such as poisons, curses and weaknesses caused by an unfriendly enemy. It is also important to note that the clothes and equipment that Nymphs wear also have status altering effects attached to them, which remain as constant effects as long as the item is question is being equipped.

You might think that most of these effects can be observed through the character page, since many are displayed there, but you would be mistaken to think so. Many of them are, in fact, hidden, and require a specialist to observe. Two good examples for this are the extreme environmental effects on the body, which can only be observed by scouts, and the alchemist's ability to detect the cause of and the possibly remedy to any poison or sickness, but there are tens - if not hundreds - of such examples in Nymphsaga, too many to list in a single entry. And then there are the hidden effects, the ones that can't be observed by players, and have to be read about to learn about. They are mostly inconsequential, but include some important status altering effects like the one that causes Nymphs to produce source at increased rate during heat.

It is up to every Nymph to take good care of themselves and keep track of every effect they can, for they can severely impact their performance, and in the worst cases even prove to be critically dangerous for them. It is highly encouraged of them to get rid of any negative long-term status altering effects they have as soon as they can.

…

As soon as the four Nymphs get to safety, their first priority is to get clothes. None of them have anything to wear outside their hair accessories, not even a single sock. They head towards the apartments of Rain, Wendy and Angel, which is actually pretty close to where Pink lives in. She lives in a tree with just a single apartment in it, a cute little hut built under a tree with no direct neighbors to pester her. It is a little closer to the center than the trio of apartments we've already got familiar with, but still in a relatively quiet and sparsely populated area.

In addition to new articles of clothing that Nymphs can discover, find and create themselves, there is a magical wardrobe function which will restore broken clothes, so the Nymphs won't lose their precious clothes. Upon repair magical clothes will lose all of their properties and status altering effects, making them just normal clothes. To combat this, there are some things that can be done. Any piece of clothing can copy the appearance from any existing piece in the wardrobe so that the new, uglier yet more powerful clothes can look like the weaker, cuter ones. Effects, however, cannot be restored by normal means. For that clothiers are needed, who can restore magical effects using magical stones provided by alchemists. Since none of their clothes had any magical effects to begin with, they just copy their old clothes.

Now, they can finally see Pink with her clothes, only to find them wildly inappropriate for a child. Her oversized-on-purpose baby blue T-shirt looks very normal on the first glance but has the numbers six and nine drawn on it. Hole for neck on this shirt is especially large, and it's not unreasonable to think at all that anyone would get a good glance of her nipples wearing this shirt, should they catch her from the right angle. Pink though, doesn't seem to care. She's wearing a white miniskirt, almost identical to that of Rain in every way other than color, and on her feet she has nice casual white and pink sneakers.

"What's up with that shirt?" Wendy asks with thin-eyed look, as she ponders the deep meaning behind the two ominous numbers.

"I don't know…" Pink says mysteriously. "I made it though", she adds, revealing herself to be a clothier.

"Well if you made it, you must know exactly why it has those numbers in it", Wendy continues, persisting on implying there's something wrong with these numbers.

"The clothes I make have random properties", Pink explains. "I guess the game considers print text to be a random property", she adds and laughs.

"Why not just wear your old shirt?"

"I don't like it!" Pink proudly says, smiling from ear to ear. "It's way too tight. I thought it would look cute when I designed this character, but… Yeah… I like baggy clothes more…"

Wendy, who still can't get over those dreaded numbers, asks: "Why didn't you just make another one…"

"What's wrong with sixty-nine?" Pink asks, tilting her head.

"…" Left speechless, Wendy just continues to stare at Pink and her poker face. She's acting innocent. "Never mind…" she finally says.

"So pure and innocent", Rain comments.

"I'm sorry I happen to hate this perverted game!" Wendy says, lashing out.

"Yet you masturbated on the first night in the game."

Wendy blushes like crazy, pointing her finger at Rain. "How the fuck would you know what I was doing!?"

"Oh, just a lucky guess… I don't know for a fact…"

"Is sixty-nine something perverted?" Pink asks, still feigning ignorance. Or is she feigning it? It's hard for every other Nymph in this group to imagine she would be serious, but who really knows. Wendy turns her gaze back to Pink, only to notice a sly smirk on her face, hidden behind her façade.

"Oh, you joker… You're just as bad as Rain…" she says, facepalming.

"I'm just an innocent little child who doesn't know anything!" Pink says with a wide smile and a childish tone.

"Where are we heading anyway?" Angel asks, switching the topic, turning towards Rain who dragged her along. "I really wanted to stay home and lay down…"

"We're going to meet a friend", Rain says with a serious tone. "A good friend who will help us. In fact, we're already here."

Ahead of the four Nymphs lies a cute little hut that Rain is already familiar with. Lucky for her, the shop seems to be open, which means that Lemon must be in. They burst in, and they really find Lemon, again reading books on her armchair. She looks absolutely elated to see Rain. "Oh my, welcome! And you bought friends too!"

"Yeah, umm…" Rain begins, fidgeting. "I was wondering if there's a potion that can help with pregnancy…"

A sudden, frightened expression appears on Lemon's face. She rushes to Rain and lays her hands on her shoulders. "Are you fine? How about your friends?"

"Well, it's me and this blonde, probably", Pink says and points at Angel.

"Oh, my good lord, this is horrible, a catastrophe!" Lemon is sounding overly dramatic, but genuine and honest. There's no faking her emotions and distress. "I wish I could help, but… There's no such potion…"

"As I feared…" Angel says and sighs deeply, as her fear grows stronger.

"I-I didn't even imagine we could get pregnant…" Lemon admits, with a horrified, white face. "I mean… They're monsters… They're all monsters…"

"Let's hit the library", Wendy suggests. "We can hopefully find information there." She puts great emphasis on the word hopefully, as there are never guarantees when it comes to acquiring new information. Moreover, last time they checked there was no lore released about pregnancy, which is another great hit to their optimism.

"Can I come too?" Lemon asks. "I want to help."

"Are you sure you want to close the shop?" Rain asks, surprised. "I mean… We appreciate it, but…"

"No, I'll come. I'll help your friends", Lemon says with a confident tone. "Friends of yours are also friends of mine."

They see no reason to deny her help, so they decide to tag along with her, and head towards the library to gather information from other Nymphs, and hopefully lore as well.

…

First things first, on the way to library, all Nymphs in this group that are not familiar with each other yet introduce themselves to each other. They all now know each other's names, but pretty much nothing else yet. There's a time and place for that in the future though, as they all get along very well.

They ask Nymphs about their opinions on the way, trying to get information from Nymphs, but nobody has had to deal with pregnancies yet, or had any friends who have. This can mean two things: either Angel and Pink don't have to worry about being pregnant, or they were incredibly unlucky to get raped. It isn't until they get to library that they get their first clue to how to combat this, as they come across a Nymph who Wendy has gotten to know very well. Her name is Melody, and she's a blue-haired, glasses wearing caster, a calm and collected personality, almost like a stereotypical bookworm. Her sense of humor is nonexistent, but she seems like a kind person, incapable of harm. She talks about a recently submitted lore-page talking about Nymphs and pregnancy and recommends that the five girls go read it themselves, as she doesn't remember it word by word and could be forgetting some details.

As soon as five Nymphs find the correct book, they all read it. They all get a copy of it to read through, since it's a magical library after all.

…

Excerpt from the Bioengineer's Logbook; "a Study on the History, Biology and Behavior of Nymphs", entry number ???, "Nymphs, Breasts and Pregnancy."

During the study into the alien race Nymphs are based on, the original creators of Nymph discovered that these beings give birth to live offspring. While it's not unique to them, as there are other similar creatures dwelling on that planet, it is as far as we're aware, unique to this planet. Every alien we've come in contact with lays eggs, so the designers of Nymph were very interested in learning more.

It was during their research that they discovered many unique perks that come with this ability, the most obvious of which are organs, which females of this race - and creatures similar to them - use to feed their newborn with a substance called "milk". These so-called breasts must be pretty convenient, we must admit, and perhaps share a great evolutionary advantage, but at the same time, they kind of weird us out. While it was their mission to stay loyal and true to this race and create a close copy of them - as authenticity tends to sell very well in Altarian markets - they weren't really keen on including these breasts to Nymphs. They thought it would be too much of a turnoff considering that breasts are so unique and rare across the galaxy. It's also why they modeled Nymphs after children, as they do not apparently develop breasts until they reach adulthood. They could make a loyal recreation while ignoring an aspect of theirs that wouldn't sell. It was a win-win in that sense.

As far as their ability to give birth to live offspring goes, they partially opted out of it. Depending on the semen they cultivate, they can give birth to live babies, but they mostly lay eggs. It always depends on the male. Or, almost always to be exact, but that's a story for another entry. What they opted out of implementing completely was the ability to breastfeed and replaced it with the ability to feed their offspring in another way, and a very fitting way to be exact, as it is directly linked to the source. Source has an effect on children too, and will help them grow faster, and more importantly to be stronger and healthier. This already begins during the pregnancy, when Nymphs will go to an extreme heat and forcefully create source at increased rate to speed up the pregnancy and feed the baby growing inside them. Typically, Nymph pregnancy is very fast because of the intense power of the source and will last anywhere from couple of hours to maybe five days tops. Increased source generation will partially continue after giving birth as well, as their offspring can absorb source from their mothers during intercourse. This is called "source-feeding". Of course, their own offspring, as well as young and weak creatures in general, can't get Nymphs pregnant, so they wouldn't be stuck in an inescapable cycle of getting impregnated by their own babies.

As a final point, why nipples? If they can't produce "milk", why even have them? According to the developers, it's just aesthetics. The same logic applies to their bellybuttons, by the way, which all Nymphs have too.

…

Given everything they have learned and experienced so far, nothing on this page really shocks them, but they find themselves a little taken off by the contents regardless.

"If there's one takeaway from this that I can appreciate is that I'm probably not pregnant…" Angel says and sighs deeply, leaning against the wall. "Not that it will make me feel much better though…"

"I might not be so lucky…" Pink wonders, blushing. "That wolf was weak, but not that weak…"

"Well, I'm not sure either, but that spider was rank F, so…"

"Let's stay put for few days just to make sure", Wendy suggests.

"I'm okay with that", Rain says and nods.

"It did mention extreme heat…" Lemon points out and looks at the two girls under a suspicion of pregnancy. "You seem to be feeling alright…"

"Well, that's partially true…" Pink says with an uncomfortable smile on her face. "My body feels somewhat okay…"

"I don't feel horny at all, that's for sure", Angel says.

Rain suddenly turns towards Lemon, opening up her inventory. "I've got a present for you, by the way."

Lemon seems surprised. "A present? For me?"

"Yeah, because you came with us to help."

"I wasn't much help though…" Lemon says meekly.

"It's the thought that matters", Wendy says smiling. "You're a ranger who uses bows? We don't want it, so just take it."

"A bow?" Lemon asks surprised. She indeed uses bows, as she is a so-called stealth ranger. Rain takes the bow out, presenting it to Lemon, who is very excited about seeing it, as it's much better than her old one. She wants to take it, she really wants to, but she's holding herself back, as she has nothing to offer back. "It's pretty good, I've got to say."

"Please accept it", Rain insists.

"Are you really sure?"

Rain nods. "In return, please join us on our adventures every now and then."

Lemon happily nods and accepts the proposal. "If I'm welcome to join, I will do it anytime you want!"

"For full disclosure", Pink begins. "I'm also available for you to group up with", she continues with a happy wink.

"A group of five would be nice", Wendy admits and smiles happily. "The more of us there are, the less trouble we are going to get. I just feel like I'm going to have to phase out from physical damage, as we can't rely on it too much, I think."

"Yeah, I can't do much about that yet…" Lemon admits. She really can't do anything else but physical damage at the moment, making her pretty much the same as Rain.

"I have fire and lightning", Pink says. "Something tells me none of you guys can do that."

"Yeah, and then we have Angel as a healer and Rain as a tank", Wendy says, nodding to herself. "It's a full party! And we have a wide range of professions as well to help each other!"

"Well, having a secondary healer and a tank would be helpful", Rain adds. "But I can't complain either, if we're going to explore as a group of five."

Now, having formed a new, a little bit larger group, they all feel at least a little bit more confident about their future. As they decided earlier though, there is not going to be any more adventuring for at least a day, as they monitor the situation with Angel and Pink, both of who could be pregnant. They make no plans beyond that, but all of them fully intend on trying to push further into Phantasm to uncover its secrets in hopes of eventually escaping it completely.

For now, they all scatter to different directions, but not before making sure they each know where their new friends live. Lemon returns to her shop to keep it open for few more hours before nightfall, Angel goes home to rest, and Wendy decides to stay in library for a while longer after Melody comes to her, asking if she wants to hang out. This leaves Rain and Pink alone, not knowing what they want to do.

"So…" Pink starts, eyeing Rain from head to toes. "We're alone."

"I wanna see your house", Rain decides. "Take me."

"Oh, so daring", Pink says and giggles. "I'll take you home gladly."

Rain and Pink

It's a first time ever for Rain in many ways. She has never been to a girl's house, not in-game or in real life. She has had Lemon visit her, but she has only visited her shop while she has been working. She hasn't been inside Wendy's or Angel's house yet, as they always meet and talk outside, and to be honest, she doesn't really see them as girls anyway, mostly because she knows what kind of people they are in real life. Now Rain doesn't know yet if Pink is a real girl, or just another guy, but she for some reason see's her as a girl, mostly because of how Pink acts. She really acts like a girl. It's in how she walks, how she talks, how she laughs, pretty much how she does everything. Her entire personality is just girly. Similar to Rain, she is kind of a joker, but goes about her business in a completely different way. She's loud and very expressive with her hand gestures. She's not afraid to laugh and smile either, something that Rain finds genuinely hard to do. She has to force most of her facial expressions, after all.

Rain now sees the cute little house in the middle of forest, hidden away from most passers-byes to see, and is kindly welcomed by Pink to enter. It's in pretty much pristine condition, which is a proof of the fact that Pink hasn't been spending a lot of time home. Most of the house remains untouched, with the exception of a messy bed and a workbench designed for a clothier. "Sit wherever you want!" Pink says happily. Rain takes upon the offer and is about to sit down at the side of the bed, when Pink stops her. "Wait, let me fix my bed first", Pink says, laughing uncomfortably, starting to tidy her bed up at least a little bit. "I'm kind of embarrassed to show you such a messy side of me… I should've cleaned up…"

"It's fine. I don't ever make my bed either."

Once satisfied by the neatness of her bed, Pink sits down on the bed, having Rain sit down next to her. "We should probably get to know each other, if we're going to be grouping up often."

Rain nods twice. "Is there anything you want to know about me?"

"Well, you know… Where you're from, what do you do, all that stuff…"

"I'm a man from Ireland", Rain says, introducing herself.

"Wait, you're a man?" Pink says, surprised. "I was one hundred percent sure you were a real girl!"

Rain tilts her head. "Do I really seem that girly to you?"

Pink doesn't know how to reply, so she just ends up giggling. "Well, honestly, you don't act that feminine. It's just that you don't really act masculine either."

"Are you disappointed?"

"N-no, in a way it makes me a little happy…" Pink admits and laughs. "Because I'm a man too…"

Rain shows the exact same surprise. "No way. You act so feminine."

Pink blushes at the comment of her new friend and pushes her hands to her cheeks. "Why, thank you."

"So, umm… Where are you from?"

"Toronto, Canada."

"How old are you? I'm 39."

"I'm 44, so not that far apart. I work in a nuclear fusion power plant as a manager."

"I'm a chief in a sale's department for a company that specializes in nanochips."

"Oh, nice! Do you travel a lot?"

"You could tell? I do", Rain says, nodding. "I've been on every continent multiple times."

"Oh boy, I'm so jealous!" Pink says and laughs. "I have never been outside North America. But in any case, there's a lot of similarities to us!"

"Yeah, I guess so…" Rain leans a little bit closer, really interested in hearing more. "So, what about hobbies? Are you into gaming?"

"Yeah, I really am… More than I'd like to admit…"

"Me too. I pretty much play anytime I'm home."

"Yeah, me too. I've been alone for five years now after my divorce."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

Pink shakes her head. "It's fine. It was a mutual decision, and I'm not really bitter about it."

"I've never even been in a relationship", Rain admits. "They're too much trouble."

"I kind of agree. But why you, though?"

Rain feels to embarrassed to admit that she's too much of a nerd to be into real girls anymore. She only finds satisfaction in fiction. "I… I just don't like the idea of settling down with a someone, and the idea of starting a family kind of scares me… Kind of pathetic when I think about it, considering I'm almost forty…"

"Come on, don't be like that. We divorced for that exact reason. I didn't want to have kids, but she did."

Rain is happy that she's not alone with her feelings, the ones she has kind of been embarrassed to talk about, especially amongst he colleagues, all of who are family-oriented men. She also notices, that Pink seems pretty happy to talk about these things as well. Her smile and the mild blush on her cheeks don't lie. Rain even feels like she can disclose even more information about herself. "Besides, I think 2D girls are cuter…"

Pink laughs at Rain's comment, but instead of feeling embarrassment, Rain just smiles shyly. "How about music?"

"I don't listen to a lot of music, to be honest…" Rain admits.

"Oh, that's a shame. I used to play guitar in college with a band."

"You would probably love to talk with Angel then. She plays guitar too."

"Really? What kind of music?"

"I think it's some kind of extreme metal… With growls, screaming, that sort of stuff…"

"Ehhh, that doesn't fit her at all!" Pink laughs again. "I'm more into pop, rock and anything in between…"

"I pretty much only play random playlists of electronic music", Rain says. "And some soundtracks of shows and games I like."

"Oh, right. Gaming!" Pink realizes. "Let's talk about that! Did you play any other VR-MMO before trying this game?"

"Yeah, I have been in Mormia since its launch."

"Really? I'm more of a casual and play a lot of different games. I never settle for end-game content, and like trying out different classes."

"I'm all about that endgame content and sweet loot."

"What kind of character you play?"

"Human, male, a berserker style fighter."

"Yeah, this is a part that I'm going to be embarrassed about saying, but I always play female…" Pink says, blushing even more. "Even this one… Everyone got turned into girls, but I was one from the beginning."

Rain scratches her cheek and nods. "Me too. I wanted to test a female character for the alpha test for shits and giggles."

"Don't you like playing a female avatar?"

"Well, I don't really care either way. I consider myself a guy, but I pretty like cute girls. Being a cute girl is kinda fun as well."

"Yeah, I'm kind of similar…" Pink starts to fidget, almost as if thinking if she should even say the things she's going to say. "I have always kind of wanted to be a girl…"

Rain doesn't know what to say. "You mean, like, a real woman?"

Pink nods. "Well, I'm used to being an adult woman in games I have played, so this is a new one for me…"

"Do you like it?"

Pink freezes completely, not knowing how to answer. Blushing from ear to ear, she just nods.

Rain responds with silence as well. Now, she never wanted to be locked to a body of a little girl, but she consented into being one when she made the character, so obviously she's more than fine with it. Pink is not only the same, but so much more. What's more is that Rain is into little girls, as has been previously mentioned few times. In fact, she's exclusively to little girls, at least 2D ones. What sits in front of her is a real girl, but in her eyes an extremely cute one nonetheless. She wouldn't find the idea of masturbating to the idea of banging such a girl completely out of ordinary, even though she doesn't jack off to real children. Of course, Nymphs don't look exactly the same as real human children do, as Rain personally finds Nymphs to look way better, so she can't really make the comparison.

"You know", Pink starts. "No VR games has had loli characters available in them, so that's why I really wanted to try this one. I have always wanted to try to play a character like this."

Rain keeps nodding to show that she understands exactly how Pink feels. "There's just something magical about the idea of returning to childhood."

"Yeah, I miss childhood", Pink admits, nodding. "Oh, gosh… I'm blushing like an idiot…"

Rain giggles. "I'm probably blushing as well…"

"You are." Both of them find themselves giggling, having shared some intimate secrets with each other. "Do you want to do anything?"

Rain thinks for a moment. "What is there to do even? There's really not technology to play with during downtime from adventure…"

"I feel like we're kind of on the same page on some things, but I'm afraid to ask…"

"Ask away. I won't laugh no matter what you ask."

Pink finally musters up the courage and leans forward. Rain is expecting something dirty, or is she secretly just hoping for it? "I wanna do some girly stuff, like play with your hair or something…"

Rain finds herself taken off surprise. "That's it?" she asks, surprised. She really wasn't expecting Pink to ask that, but then again, Rain does have a long, magnificent hair, just like Pink does. If Pink wants to play with it, and maybe try different kinds of hairstyles on her, using her as a little dress-up doll, she's more than happy to comply. "Oh, please have your way with me…"

Pink runs away, giddy and very happy, with a spring in her feet. She heads towards her work table, bringing up some strings and a brush with her. She immediately starts to open up the hair ties, unraveling Rain's braided ponytails. To much of her surprise, she finds Rain's hair to be thick and curly, not what she expected. "Wow, your hair is beautiful! Why don't you keep it open?" Rain turns around to see Pink's smiling face. "It really fits you! You look so beautiful!"

"I haven't thought about my hair too much. I kind of like ponytails and braids."

"Oh, I'm going to have so much fun!" Pink leans in closer to work with Rain's hair, and she can feel her warmth from behind, as well as her gentle touches. Having her hair played with and ruffled feels comfortable and relaxing, more so that she could've even imagined. Rain closes her eyes, with a happy smile on her face, as she just concentrates on the handy work. Pink takes the brush, only to realize Rain's hair has been tangled up quite a bit. She's really careful not to hurt Rain or damage her hair and does a very good job at that.

"Ah… I love it…" Rain admits, out loud. "This is so relaxing after all…"

"Do me afterwards, okay…?"

Rain nods. "With pleasure…"

…

As they alternate and take turns playing with each other's hair, they continue their meaningless conversation, getting back to their hobbies. They talk about what kind of car they have, what kind of games they play besides RPG's, and about their diet and sports as well. They do not have very much in common in these departments, as Raid only plays role playing games and doesn't own a car, while Pink doesn't really care about healthy eating and exercising in the way Rain does.

Surprisingly intimate, they both have been touching each other for a long time now, and been fiddling with each other's hair, which in turn has them both blushing and smiling gleefully. Rain feels herself even getting excited being tended by a little girl, and her heart has been racing for a while now. She wonders, is Pink feeling the same way? She's afraid to ask.

The play concludes with Pink assisting Rain in giving her back her braids. It turns out to be lot harder than she expected, especially since she's very inexperienced. Pink herself is wearing a cute ponytail with a tight rosy red ribbon.

"I prefer open hair, but maybe ponytails are nice after all", Pink thinks out loud.

Rain nods. "It looks good on you."

"I feel like your hair got a little upgrade as well now that I got to fix it", Pink says, clapping happily.

Rain inspects her hair and agrees. Her hair used to be quite a mess since she was afraid of unraveling it. Now that she has a friend who can fix her hair, she feels more confident about opening it once in a while, especially while washing it. Besides, she can probably fix it herself as well. "In any case… I had a lot of fun…" Rain says.

"Oh, yes… Me too…"

"I kind of want to try different kinds of outfits next…" Rain suggests. "Oh, you're a clothier, right?"

Pink nods. "I don't have too many clothes on hand right now, but that could be fun for future… Maybe something else for now?" Rain thinks deep, but she can't think of anything. "How about make-up?"

Rain blinks her eyes rapidly in surprise. "Make up?"

Pink nods. "I don't know… I kind of got excited about acting like a girl, and doing all this girly stuff…"

Rain giggles and says: "I don't think little kids need make-up, Pink…"

"Well, I guess you're somewhat right. You're pretty cute without make-up at least."

"So are you."

Pink continues to think. "Well, we don't really need to do anything special… But if you want, we can just talk some more…"

Rain nods and leans forward. "Let's talk more about secrets…"

"Oh, that does sound exciting indeed…" Pink admits, fiddling around with her little fingers. "You're not in a hurry home anyway… Right…?"

"Yeah, of course not…"

"So, let's share a lot of secrets."

Rain nods. "I like you quite a lot, so… I feel like telling you anything at all…"

"O-oh…" Pink finds herself backing down few inches, but not because of the fact that she's feeling uncomfortable or anything like that. She was just surprised to hear those words. "Was that a secret you wanted to tell me…?" she asks with a mysterious tone.

"Maybe…"

"I must admit, I like you too…"

"Speaking of likes", Rain begins. "What do you like about being a little girl?"

"Oh, what are you asking so suddenly…" Pink softly whispers. "I can't explain it… I just feel like it being a girl fits me more…"

"I'm not sure about that on a personal level", Rain says and laughs. "But I get what you mean. Having been like this for few days now, I totally get you."

"Do you like it as well?"

Rain doesn't want to outright admit it, but he nods and whispers: "I don't dislike this childish body of mine…"

"Being big and strong has its perks, but I just love being small and cute", Pink says with hands pressed against her cheeks. "Besides, I get to be around other cute girls as well."

"Yes, that definitely is a great thing!" Rain says nodding.

"And I'm kinda into kids as well…" Pink admits suddenly, probably without even thinking about what she just blurted out. A brief stare down ensures, which just causes Pink to get increasingly embarrassed about what she just said. "Forget what I just said…"

"Oh, no, no, no…" Rain mumbles to herself, leaning even more forward. She presses her hands into the sheets and gets on her knees. "Are you into me, then?"

Pink begins with a long, stretched out "Well", and she rolls her eyes around, avoiding eye contact with Rain, who is literally breathing into her face. "Ah, fuck it. Yes, I think you're hot."

Rain, without even thinking, extends her hands to Pink's shoulders and presses her down, falling on top of this girl. Pink's sudden words, her words claiming herself to be into kids, lit a light into her heart. A flip was suddenly switched in her brains which forced her to push herself on top of this little kid. Pink's confession of love towards kids was everything Rain needed to make a sexual advance. It was something she wanted to do and has wanted to do with many Nymphs she's met already but hasn't been able to because of the fact that she's afraid they would hate her for making sexual advances. Not Pink, certainly not Pink. They share a mutual lust towards each other, and knowing this, Rain can't help but to push her down, but that's nowhere near enough for her. She wants to go much, much further.

Still pushing Pink down with all her measly body weight, Rain presses her lips against those of Pink's to steal a long, soft kiss. She felt her pucker up in a sudden response, a positive answer to her sexual advances. Feeling like nothing can or will hold her back, Rain begins to eat out soft lips like soft ice cream, feeling the warm, wet lips sink against her own. Neither of the girls can resist the urge to stick their tongues out, a move that simultaneously surprises both of them, when they softly touch each other. For merely one and half seconds, they find their lips separated, and it is Pink who pushes back this time for a French kiss. In addition to the wet, sloppy noises that their connected mouths are making, they both find themselves letting out muffled moans of pleasure.

The pedophilic lesbian lust shared towards each other is not limited to just a kiss, as they want to touch each other. So far, they have both stayed relatively stable. With their chests pressed against each other they can feel each other's hastened heartbeat and the warmth through the clothes. They want to feel so much more. Pinks loving hug is slowly heading towards Rain's butt, which she really wants to touch and grab. At the same time, Rain's exposed thigh presses against Pink's pussy through her panties. Rain can feel Pink's legs against her own genitals as well. Their bodies have separated just enough for Rain to be able to slide her hand under Pink's shirt. After exposing her belly, her hand pushes upwards, taking a good feel of a young girl's firm, yet soft chest. Despite being flat, it really is soft, and not bony at all, and it's so warm as well. As her thumb accidentally grazes the little stiff nipple, she feels Pink's back arcing in response underneath her. In that very instant they both can feel their hips moving, and the thighs pushing down on their privates rubbing them comfortably. Both of them can't help but to notice that their kissers are not in fact the only lips that are wet from the intimate play.

Already sweaty and feeling uncomfortable, Rain wants to get rid of her hoodie badly. She stops pushing herself on top of Pink for a moment, raising herself to stand on her knees on top of Pink's body. Pulling down the zipper, she quickly and nervously takes off her hoodie, which is a very easy feat to do indeed as she doesn't have to pull it over her head. As soon as she presents her sporty, naked upper body to Pink, her gleaming eyes are locked to it. Her blush is crazy, and so is her wide, tight-lipped, lustful smile.

For both of them, this is a dream come true. Rain suspected from the way Pink talked, and from the way that she has acted so far, that Pink is a very submissive girl. Rain is happy to play the top, as she loves the idea of pushing herself on a small child. There's so much she wants to do to Pink, and she starts by pushing her face down on Pink's breasts. With her hands, she exposes Pink's chest in full and proceeds to kiss and lick her nipples. With only one mouth to play with, she uses her hand for the other breast, pressing and gripping into it tight. She can't get enough of how nice it feels and tastes. She can taste the sweet, odorless sweat of a child, a taste she finds more pleasant than she anticipated. As for the little, stiffened up nipples of a child, she's in love. Once tasted, she can't get her lips off them. Her tongue just keeps flicking them, and she sucks on it hard. Pink's girly, high-pitch moans and heavy breathing are music to her ears, a perfect soundtrack to her shameless advance.

For Pink, the situation feels just as nice. She actually has someone lusting over her body, a body of a child she has dreamed of and longed for. And who's lusting for her? Another child. While she does feel that being a female probably fits her and her personality more, she does find women to be more attractive than men. Pink feels like she's in the dream world she has dreamed of forever, and for this very night she feels like she can forget about everything bad and scary that has happened to her and will happen to her. None of that matters, because right now she's in heaven. Lost in pleasure, concentrating on what's going on, she doesn't realize what Rain's other hand is doing. It lifts her skirt, reaches down her panties, and touches her pussy directly. A loud moan instantly escapes her mouth to sound her approval. She can feel the fingers touch her opening, and roll around it, but there is no penetration. Rain is hesitating to push her fingers in on purpose, and Pink wants to be fingered so bad. "Ah, it feels so good…!"

Rain separates from Pink, only to put her hands on her shirt. "These clothes are in the way…!" she says, filled with lust, and with a little assistance, she gets the shirt off Pink. "Ahh, I can't wait to see you naked again…! I can't resist myself at all…!" Rain starts opening up her skirts zipper and gets on her knees.

Pink gets up as well, only to hug Rain's body, and touch her ass through the skirt, also stopping Rain on her tracks. She pushes her naked body against that of Rain, and both their nipples press against each other's bare skin. After a short kiss, Pink is the one that is pushing her hands under Rain's skirt, as well as her panties. Rain does the same thing, and very soon, they both find each other bottomless. With only their hair accessories from earlier, as well as their socks on, they're otherwise naked. Able to touch and see everything directly now, they slow down, excited and even a little bit scared. Their hands play around with each other's hair and for a moment, as they lean closer to whisper.

"I can't get over how cute you are…" Rain admits. "I really want to do you…"

"As much as you want…" Pink says and nods. "I'll be your girl for tonight…"

"Yeah, we're not sleeping tonight… I'm not going home either…"

"Yes…! Let's make love all night…!"

"I never thought I would actually do this to a real child…" Rain says and pushes Pink down once again.

"I see you're into kids as well…" Pink says, laying down on her back, acting all cute.

"Does it bother you…?" Rain asks shyly.

Pink shakes her head as she spreads her legs to show her immature vagina for Rain to see. "It arouses me… I want you to look at me more…" Her fingers pressed against the soft, wet lips, she opens herself up to show the tight, juicy opening, not larger than a pinky's fingertip in size.

Rain finds herself staring down on the hole with amazed look printed on her face. Her heart is racing and beating like a drum, as she finds herself hesitating. 'Holy shit, it's actually in front of me right now', Rain thinks to herself and touches herself down there. 'A cute little cunny. It looks so fuckable. And her body is so freaking cute and small too. She's so soft, so freaking erotic!' Rain gulps once, and crawls on her knees. She lets her face get closer to Pink's private place and lays comfortably on her stomach. Being a little girl herself, she has to settle to the little she has to pleasure the child in front of her. 'God, I wish I had my dick right now', she thinks to herself and presses her thumbs against the lips. 'It looks so tight that I would probably cum instantly. I would fuck her so hard.' Pink lays her hands to the side and lets Rain play with her pussy without offering any help to her. The clean, natural smell is alluring Rain in, and she can't help but to press her lips against her pussy, around her opening. She has never pleasured a girl, so she's clueless, but it can't be too hard? Besides, Pink at very least responds nicely with some shaky movement and breathing filled with intense pleasure. Rain decides to start by simply licking it, and she performs long, yet quick strokes with her tongue. She starts by pressing it against the little hole, and moves it up the slit, only for the tip of the tongue to flick exposed clit. She can taste it all around her tongue, and it fills her with even more pleasure. The taste is salty and strong, yet pleasant and simple. The word that springs to Rain's mind on top of every other though, is "addicting". It's not the taste that is addicting, but the entire experience. The softness, the warmth and the responses that Pink makes, they're all stimulating.

Pink's responses really are strong, and instantaneous. With every flick of her bean, her body jolts and jerks ever so slightly. In fact, they're getting stronger with every flicker, and she arcs her body backwards, spreading her legs even more. It is becoming harder for her to resist just shouting in pleasure, and her moans are getting louder. Her eyes roll back, and her mind is like a simple white blank page, devoid of any thoughts. Lost in intense pleasure, she's going to cum soon. Barely having started, relentless mouth play drives her off the cliff as she orgasms from a tongue alone.

Rain seems to realize this, but there's no way she's stopping so soon when she just started. Her hunger for immature cunt is insatiable. She presents a finger to the play and uses it to play with Pink's clit while her tongue focuses on licking the pussy. She tries pushing her tongue in to get a better taste as she pinches Pink's bean, which only seems to make her let out stronger moans. She doesn't have the strength or the ability to stick her tongue deep, but it's more than enough for her. Then, fingers and mouth switch places. Rain focuses her mouth on Pink's clit and uses her fingers to reach inside the hole. Little opening immediately gives in and lets the fingers slide in easily. Wet hole tightens immediately around her fingers, almost as if sucking them in deeper. Rain can only imagine what it would feel like for a dick, and she also kind of mourns over the fact that Pink has already had a massive cock inside her. Jealous that she couldn't take away her virginity and the fact that she doesn't have anything like that to pleasure her with, she continues to lick and finger the little pussy possessively. In and out, fast, with straight movements. She knows that Pink just came, and she powered through it all. Now, she wants to make her cum again.

Coincidentally, Pink too mourns the fact that this isn't her first sexual experience as a Nymph. But enough of that, because there's nothing to mourn about. Pink knows that she's going to cum again, and quite possibly very soon as well, and the next one is promising to be just as explosive as the last one. Having tasted it once already, she's so addicted on it that she wants to experience it again and again. Not saying it out loud, she keeps repeating again and again in her mind a plea for Rain to make her cum, all the way until she can feel it rolling in, accompanied by the fast-paced fingerbang. The plea spoken in her mind switches to a word said out loud, as she screams "Yes" over and over again all the way until she orgasms. Her body spasms violently as she literally squirts her juices all over Rain's fingers. It tightens up like crazy and her soft voice starts breaking up, with tears of joy appearing in the corners of her eyes. Rain stops, satisfied with herself, and Pink is left laying shaky and feeling unbelievable sensations beyond her wildest imaginations.

'Wow, did I do that to her?' Rain asks herself, looking at her soaked hand. Still not getting enough of the taste, she licks her fingers, staring down at Pink, who is just out of it. Laying still, eyes staring into emptiness and tongue sticking out, she breathes in and out deep through her open, smiling mouth. She comes to it the instant Rain presses her hands on the sheets next to her ribs, and their lustful eyes meet. Almost as if injected by a shot of energy straight into her bloodstream, Pink gets up, arms crossed behind Rain's neck. They both sit up on their knees, and Pink adjusts her body behind Rains back, pressing her body against it.

"I think it's about time we switch up, Rain…" Pink whispers to Rain's ear from behind, pressing hands against her chest. Rain, surprised, looks down on her body. She was not expecting to be on the receiving end. "I want to make you feel amazing too…"

"H-hold on…!" Rain says, but then she feels the other hand grab her pussy from behind. Pink begins to rub it, her jaw pressed against Rain's petite shoulder. The words that blurted out of Rain's mouth without thinking end up being the only words of protest, as her body is overwhelmed by the pleasure. It is not all that foreign to her, but she has been way too careful about touching her own body. It really is not a lie despite the fact that she's a literal pedophile in real life, madly in love with little girls. The man in control of this cute avatar is a man, after all, and while she likes his new form, she's afraid of experiencing what she can experience in it. She thinks she knows how intense it can feel, especially now that she saw what she was able to do to Pink, and she suspects that Pink is able to do it to her as well. It's not she's not okay with it, but she doesn't feel ready yet.

Her opinion changes quickly, in a matter of just few seconds. The way Pink's fingers make her feel drains away all the doubt from her heart and forces her into submission. Pink's hands have no force applied to them, but despite this, Rain finds her body jerked and tugged backwards, almost if by a magnetic force. As good as it feels, she has felt nothing yet. Pink hasn't even inserted her fingers yet. In fact, Rain has never had anything inserted inside her yet. The furthest anything has gone with her was the smile, that teased her in the same way Pink is teasing her right now. Suddenly, a single finger enters her. Just like that, her legs tremble and she keeps spreading them more, as much as she can from the position she's in. Her hole is sensitive really far deep into the hole, and it surprises her just how deep her nerves go. 'How far do they go', she asks herself. 'About three inches for an adult, so two to three, maybe?' That's farther than a child's finger can reach. She was expecting the pleasure to be just around her opening, but it flows deep inside her. Gently, warmth fills her heart, and she finds herself moaning involuntarily. She has done her best to keep her voice at bay at all times. She's always so quiet and emotionless, that she surprises even herself. 'Did I just make that noise?' she asks herself despite the fact that she full well knows the answer. She just can't believe it, and she keeps making more noises. 'Oh no, is this what it feels like? Did Pink feel like this too?' And it's not just her pussy, but her chest too. Pink's other hand pinches her nipple, which just makes her moan even more. She bends her head backwards and turns it towards Pink, who is happy to answer with a kiss.

Play is getting more intense. Being pleasured in many ways at once, the number of fingers inside her depth's doubles. In addition to the middle finger, the ring finger disappears into the tight grip of her pussy. Pink fingers her hard, with her palm slapping against the upper parts of Rain's lips with every single thrust. Even these soft and weak slaps fill her with satisfaction. It's getting really slimy and juicy, and Pink's hand is already drenched as a proof of just how wet Rain really is. And Rain can't resist at all anymore. Having been shown a whole new world, having been shown just what kind of pleasure her body is capable of producing, she can't go back anymore. In this moment, she doesn't care about getting her dick back. How could she given how good it feels? Yet, it's about to get better. She hasn't even cummed yet. Her first ever orgasm is going to be at the hands of another Nymph in a lesbian play, given by a small child. That's something that she's going to treasure in her heart forever and she knows it. Oh, how grateful she is to lose her virginity like this.

It begins suddenly, and her body reacts violently. She leans backwards even more strongly, being tugged towards Pink by her weak grasp on her nipples. Pink realizes what's going on and pinches her just harder. Pink lets her mouth go and let's Rain scream and moan, and she doesn't hesitate to do so. As soon as her mouth is free, a loud cry of pleasure escapes her mouth. Being teased all the way until the end with rough hand movements, she loses all sense of reason and surrenders to the ecstasy.

While it felt like a pleasant eternity while it was going on, in reality, it was over quicker than she wanted it to be. Left dizzy and panting heavily in exhaustion, she lusts for more. Pink is hugging her from behind, and she grabs both her arms as well, closing her eyes as she focuses on the warm embrace.

"What was that 'hold on' about…?" Pink whispers with a mischievous tone.

"Oh, it's just that… You took away my first time so suddenly…"

"Really…? How did you like it…?"

"Amazing… I want to experience it over and over again…"

"So, it was your first orgasm…?" Pink asks, and Rain nods. "Well, I'm not that much more experienced myself, so let's try out a lot of different things… Okay…?"

Rain turns around, smirking. "How about we do something that will give pleasure to us both…?"

Pink isn't sure what Rain means, but she's sure it's either scissoring or sixty-nine. Both of these plays are something she wants to do before the night is over. She nods slowly, and lets Rain lead the way. After all, that's probably what fits them both the best.

…

After a good night's sleep tugged into each other's arms, two Nymphs wake up wondering to themselves, was sex something they should've had, especially for such a long time? They didn't look at the time, but given that they woke up really late, it is safe to say that they made love way past their usual bedtime, which coincidentally is about the same for both of them, around the sundown.

Having known each other for less than a day, they shared something very special together. They both loved it and while they wouldn't change a thing, they can't shake off the feeling that maybe it was something that should've been left undone. They both kind of agree that they did not do it out of love or desire for relationship, but rather, out of pure impulsive lust towards each other at the time. They also agree that they both view each other as a friend rather than a lover, and that they will not let what they did negatively affect them going forward. Are they going to do it again in the future? Perhaps, but for the time being they mutually decide to keep their relationship as something that doesn't involve sex.

On a somewhat different topic, much to everyone's happiness and joy, neither Angel or Pink seem to have any negative effects from being raped and cummed inside. For Angel this was unsurprising given what they learned about weak monsters being unable to impregnate Nymphs, but why wasn't Pink impregnated? Is pregnancy not always guaranteed or was the wolf too weak? Was there something else at play? For now, all these questions will remain unanswered, left to be explored, hopefully not by experience, but rather by another possible piece of lore discovered in the wild.

Now working as a newly formed quintet, this group of Nymphs ventures back into the forest to train and get stronger together. Eyes locked on level four, the level when they unlock their last talent point, they work hard together, familiarize with each other, and grow to know each other better.

They feel optimistic about their future, which for all intents and purposes, looks bright.

Chapter II